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Taiwanese Banks to Get Approval from Regulators; Clears Way for...
By: Dan Balaban Five banks in Taiwan are expected to receive approval from regulators by next month that would allow them to issue mobile credit cards that could be downloaded over the air to SIM...
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Taiwanese Telco and Banks Announce Plans for NFC-Payment Projects
May 29 2013 (All day) By: Dan Balaban Taiwan’s largest mobile operator, Chunghwa Telecom, and four banks announced plans today to launch NFC mobile payment, likely starting with Cathay United Bank and...
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NFC Backer Chunghwa Telecom Seeks Cut of Transaction Fees with New QR Code...
By: Dan Balaban Taipei, TAIWAN–NFC Times Exclusive: Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan’s largest mobile operator and a long-time backer of NFC, has introduced its QR code-based mobile-payments service, with...
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NFC Backer Chunghwa Telecom Seeks Cut of Transaction Fees with New QR Code...
By: Dan Balaban Taipei, TAIWAN – NFC Times Exclusive: Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan’s largest mobile operator and a long-time backer of NFC, has introduced its QR code-based mobile-payments service, with...
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Asia-Pacific Banks Gear Up for HCE; Likely Site of Some of the First...
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive: Despite the interest in host-card emulation in North America and, to some extent, Europe grabbing the spotlight, there is a good chance that banks and other...
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Asia-Pacific Banks Gear Up for HCE; Likely Site of Some of the First...
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive: Despite the interest in host-card emulation in North America and Europe grabbing the spotlight, there is a good chance that banks and other issuers in...
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Taiwan’s No. 1 Telco Prepares to Announce NFC Commercial Launch
Oct 1 2014 (All day) By: Dan Balaban Taiwan’s largest mobile operator, Chunghwa Telecom, will announce the small commercial launch of NFC service on Wednesday, with participation from MasterCard...
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Taiwanese Telco Launches NFC; Implementation Issues with Mifare Limits...
Oct 2 2014 (All day) By: Dan Balaban TAIPEI, Taiwan – Taiwan’s largest telco, Chunghwa Telecom, Wednesday announced the launch of its long-planned NFC commercial service, enabling MasterCard PayPass...
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Scope: Rollout Taiwan 25.0949 121.56 Launch: Oct 2014 Main Application: Payment Mobile Operator: Chunghwa Telecom Service Provider (application): EasyCard Corp. (EasyCard) Service Provider...
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NFC SIMs in Short Supply for Chunghwa Telecom's NFC Rollout
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive – TAIPEI, Taiwan – Gemalto announced this week that it is providing NFC SIM cards for Chunghwa Telecom’s commercial launch of NFC services, but availability of the...
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Taiwan’s Telco TSM Joint Venture Announces Launch Plans, but Faces Market...
Dec 30 2014 By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive Insight: TAIPEI, Taiwan – Taiwan’s mobile operator TSM joint venture Thursday announced plans to launch NFC service in the second quarter, following a...
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Banking TSM Joint Venture Announces Launch of Service in Taiwan’s Fragmented...
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive Insight: TAIPEI, Taiwan – Taiwan’s banking joint venture, Taiwan Mobile Payment Co., as expected, announced the launch of its TSM service Tuesday, with at least 32...
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Taiwan’s E.Sun Bank to Launch Own HCE Service, Breaking Ranks with Banking Group
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive – E.Sun Commercial Bank, a top five card issuer in Taiwan, plans to launch NFC payments from its own wallet app using host-card emulation, NFC Times has learned,...
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No. 3 Taiwanese Issuer Seeks to Outflank Larger Rivals with Own HCE Service;...
Dec 29 2015 By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive Insight – TAIPEI, Taiwan: Taiwan’s third largest credit card issuer, E.Sun Commercial Bank, today announced the launch of mobile payments with host card...
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Did Low-Cost HCE Project in Taiwan Get a Low-Cost Vendor?
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Excusive – When Taiwan’s No. 3 credit card issuer, E.Sun Commercial Bank, held a press conference with Visa Dec. 28 to announce it was the first bank on the island nation to...
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Taiwan Banks to Launch Mobile Payments with HCE, but Only with...
Aug 4 2016 By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive Insight – More than a dozen Taiwanese banks and their mobile payments joint venture along with Mastercard plan to announce Thursday the launch of mobile...
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Samsung Discloses Plans for Samsung Pay Launch in Taiwan; Apple Pay Launch...
Nov 9 2016 By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive Insight – Samsung today disclosed plans in a local forum to launch Samsung Pay in Taiwan next year with several banks and a closed-loop payments service,...
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Sony Pay? Sony Mobile Unlikely to Join ‘OEM Pay’ Club; Looking Instead to...
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive – Sony Mobile has no plans to introduce its own payments service, choosing instead to work with local mobile payments service providers market by market, NFC Times...
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Major Taiwanese Banks Prepare for Launch of Apple Pay
By: Dan Balaban NFC Times Exclusive – At least six of Taiwan’s largest card issuers are lined up to participate in Apple Pay when it launches on the island nation, expected before the end of the...
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Apple Makes Apple Pay Launch in Taiwan Official; Global Use of Mobile...
By: Istvan Fekete NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Two years after launch, Apple says Apple Pay users carried out hundreds of millions of transactions worth billions of dollars during the fourth...
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