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City National Bank, Extend Team On Virtual Corporate Cards

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City National Bank has enlisted New York City FinTech Extend to enable the bank’s clients to offer virtual corporate cards to employees, vendors and other business partners, the companies announced in a press release. With Extend, City National is the first issuer in the U.S. Replacing them is much easier than replacing plastic cards.

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Is It Time For Apple To Allow Others Access To The iPhone NFC Chip?

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This digital shift — doing less in the physical world and more in the digital world for the same activity — is based on 16 longitudinal studies that PYMNTS has conducted of a national sample of more than 40,000 U.S. Those conversations have largely ignored the Biggest Tech company of all, Apple, and Apple Pay.

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Great Expectations: Apple and Verizon Start Their 5G Engines

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Separately, T-Mobile has said that will go nearly nationwide on its own 5G network by the end of next year, as reported in Fortune. ranked among the lowest of all nations surveyed as a function of how much faster download speeds have been for 5G over the current standard 4G. But then again … the wait, as they might say, is on.

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Monese Brings Apple Pay To 13 Countries; UK Retailer Iceland Tests Mobile Wallet Tech

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Banking service Monese now offers Apple Pay through 13 countries in Europe , as the digital payment service has also arrived at National Australia Bank (NAB). retailer Iceland has seen encouraging results from a mobile wallet technology pilot during a marketing campaign. Users who reside in Belgium, the U.K., And in the U.K.,

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Swiss Mobile Wallet To Challenge Apple

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Apple is facing a new competitor in the mobile wallet market, thanks to a joint venture between two Swiss companies, reports said on Monday (Sept. and Paymit has the companies working on their own mobile wallet technology slated for launch early next year. The merger between payments tech firms TWINT Ltd.

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EU Investigates Apple Pay, App Store

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The European Union (EU) has launched antitrust investigations into potential violations by Apple of competition laws in its Apple Pay service and App Store, The Wall Street Journal reported. If found guilty, Apple could face a fine of up to 10 percent of its annual revenue and be forced to amend its business practices.

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Google, Apple Team For App To ID Coronavirus Contact In UK

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A mobile app to track the coronavirus is being developed by NHSX , the technology arm of Britain’s National Health Service (NHS), in coordination with Google and Apple, according to numerous reports on Sunday (April 12). Hancock did not have a time frame for how long the app would take to launch.

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