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Is Apple Pay Later Really a Threat to Affirm and Other BNPL Providers?
June 13, 2022

Apple’s Project Breakout finally broke out a week ago today at Apple’s WWDC. It was then that Apple confirmed what was probably one of the worst kept secrets in payments: it would enter the buy now, pay later (BNPL) space with its own product, Apple...

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iPhone-to-iPhone Tap to Pay Launches at Apple Stores
May 25, 2022

Apple will begin rolling out its new Tap to Pay feature for the public, a report said Wednesday (May 25). The feature was unveiled in February and lets iPhones that were compatible take payments through Apple Pay, contactless credit and debit, or other digital wallets....

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Apple Said to Eye Grocery Delivery for Apple Pay
May 08, 2022

Apple may be seeing new updates for Apple Fitness+ and Apple Pay, and the company is also reportedly looking into a grocery ordering service focusing on nutrition, according to a report Sunday (May 8) from Apple Insider. Mark Gurman, a Bloomberg reporter who often writes...

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Apple, Google Mobile Payments Systems Stop Supporting Russia’s Mir Card
March 27, 2022

Apple has closed a loophole that was allowing some Russians to keep using its mobile payment service even though the economic sanctions have been ongoing, an Engadget report says. The company told Russia’s biggest bank on Thursday that it wouldn’t be supporting the Russian Mir...

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USPS Takes Apple Pay Online but Not In-Person
December 20, 2021

Apple Pay is now accepted by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) online, but for in-person transactions at retail locations, another payment method is needed, according to reports on Monday (Dec. 20). Although the USPS wasn’t a supporter of Apple Pay, a recent website update showed...

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Apple Pay at 7 Data Shows Lackluster In-Store Usage of Digital Wallets
October 08, 2021

Fans of the Apple Inc. ecosystem fell in love with its smooth interoperability, whether it was sharing YouTube videos to Facebook, taking FaceTime video calls years before Zoom took off, or enjoying all manner of smartphone experiences delivered in a unified platform fashion. The Apple...

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Visa Could Take a Bite Out of Apple Pay Fees
October 05, 2021

Banks are pushing Visa to alter the way it processes some Apple Pay transactions, a change that would reduce the fees Apple receives from those institutions. According to media accounts on Tuesday (Oct. 5), Visa plans to institute the change next year, although sources told...

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Apple Pay Glitch May Be Exploited for Unauthorized Contactless Payments 
September 30, 2021

Researchers have recently discovered a loophole in iPhones that allows hackers to make unauthorized contactless payments on locked mobile phones by exploiting an Apple Pay feature that’s supposed to help users pay quickly using their Visa cards, according to a BBC report Thursday (Sept. 30). ...

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Seven Years Later, Only 6% of People with iPhones in the US Use Apple Pay...
September 07, 2021

Remember this? It was about seven years ago – Sept. 9, 2014 – when Tim Cook took the stage at Apple’s WWDC and introduced Apple Pay. What the world saw that day was a slick user experience that was quintessentially Apple – a mobile payments...