Samsung Pay has been launched across Taiwan with support from Visa and Mastercard along with seven major banks including Citibank, Cathay United Bank, E.Sun Commercial Bank, Taishin International Bank, Fubon Bank, Union Bank of Taiwan and Standard Chartered. The service supports iris scan authentication for those with Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ devices.
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Android Pay has launched in Taiwan, taking the mobile payment service to a total of 13 markets following its debut in Canada earlier this week. Visa and Mastercard credit cards from supporting banks CTBC and First Bank can be used with the mobile payment service at launch, with support from EnTie Bank, Hua Nan Bank […]
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“Europe’s largest retailer, France-based Carrefour SA, has introduced its own mobile wallet dubbed CarrefourPay and joined hands with China UnionPay, a bankcard provider, to build a mobile payment ecosphere… The cross-industry partnership will see both firms working together in such areas as general payment platforms, membership systems, secure payments, big data analysis and smart retail.”
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“Carrefour Pay is quick and easy and has no payment limit — customers can use it to pay for their shopping at all terminals which have NFC contactless technology… It can be used in 3,000 Carrefour stores in France and in all stores which accept contactless payment. All bank cards will be added in 2018, […]
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Carrefour has begun testing a biometric payments system at its Skanska supermarket in the Romanian capital city of Bucharest, the supermarket giant has announced. “This revolutionary payment method is offered at the store’s conventional and self-service check-outs,” Carrefour says.
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Supermarket giant Carrefour has become the first retailer in Europe to integrate its customer loyalty programme with Apple Pay, enabling shoppers both to pay for their purchases and collect loyalty points with a single tap of their iPhone or Apple Watch. “As of today, Carrefour customers can add their customer loyalty card to their Apple […]
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Customers in Carrefour stores run by Majid Al Futtaim in the United Arab Emirates can now scan their purchases and pay for them in-store using the Mobile Scan&Go feature integrated into the retailer’s app. To use the self-checkout service, customers open the feature on the MAF Carrefour app and scan the barcode on each of […]
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Consumers in Dubai can now use an app to gain access to Majid al Futtaim’s Carrefour City+ store in the Mall of the Emirates, select the products they want to purchase without needing to scan them and pay for them on their mobile phone without interacting with staff or using a checkout.
The store uses a system of cameras and artificial intelligence (AI) technology to track each customer’s activity, identify the products they choose and add them to that customer’s digital shopping basket.
Once they have left the store, customers are automatically charged for their purchases via the retailer’s app.
Majid al Futtaim has integrated “state of the art technology to identify thousands of products with pinpoint accuracy” into its first automated checkout-free store to provide “a fast, seamless and contactless experience” for customers and improve inventory management.
“Store access and shopping payment is enabled via the current MAF Carrefour App,” the company says.
“Once inside Carrefour City+, every item picked up by customers will then be automatically added to a digital shopping basket and the purchase will be completed by simply walking out.
“Not only is the shopping journey faster, but also completely contactless, with no store staff interaction necessary.”
Carrefour stores run by Majid Al Futtaim across the United Arab Emirates began enabling customers to scan their purchases and pay for them in-store using its Mobile Scan&Go feature integrated into the retailer’s app in December 2020.
Carrefour opens checkout-free store in Dubai was written by Tom Phillips and published by NFCW.
PARTNER NEWS: Dejamobile has been acquired by Market Pay, the France-based international payments platform founded by supermarket giant Carrefour.
“With this acquisition, the entire Dejamobile team, including the management team, is joining Market Pay,” Dejamobile says. “The three co-founders of Dejamobile — Houssem Assadi, chief executive officer, Bertrand Pladeau, chief operating officer and Ahmad Saif, chief technical officer — will remain at the head of the company, which therefore becomes a subsidiary of Market Pay.”
Founded in 2016, Market Pay now operates in France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Lithuania, Denmark and Brazil.
“In 2020, its platform handled 2.3bn transactions, 130,000 terminals and more than 5m cards issued for a total business volume of €29bn [US$33.9bn],” the company says.
Full details are available in the Market Pay press release below:
PARIS, FRANCE, 28 September 2021: Market Pay, the European and omnichannel payment platform, today announces the acquisition of Dejamobile, a French fintech leader in mobile and connected equipment payment solutions. Dejamobile becomes a subsidiary of Market Pay
Dejamobile develops digital transaction software solutions targeting the payment, transport and retail industries. Its white-labelled solutions are marketed globally to merchants, banks, fintechs and merchant service providers. Certified according to market standards, Dejamobile solutions enable them to offer innovative and certified digital payment solutions based on the latest technologies (NFC, HCE, Token, QR Code).
Market Pay and Dejamobile have already successfully partnered pre-acquisition by developing PayWish, an innovative service for mobile purchasing experiences through a contactless payment application on Android smartphones and tablets.
This investment allows Market Pay to onboard integrate a leading, mobile transaction technology offering with substantial adoption potential, to further strengthen Market Pay’s international footprint in the payments industry.
Dejamobile’s market leading expertise in both digital and contactless payments complements the full range of in-store and e-commerce payment services already offered by Market Pay. The Dejamobile team, made up of developers and engineers, will support and strengthen Market Pay’s R&D teams.
This deal is the second acquisition for Market Pay this month, following the acquisition of the Acoustic Payment platform. These developments represent part of an ambitious growth plan for Market Pay following AnaCap’s acquisition of a majority stake in April 2021.
Houssem Assadi, CEO and co-founder of Dejamobile, commented: “Dejamobile’s founders and employees are excited to join Market Pay to build a leading fintech on an international scale. The range of innovative solutions developed by Dejamobile since 2012, as well as its ecosystem of customers and partners, provides Market Pay with new assets in its ambitious development project. The synergy created by the integration of Dejamobile within Market Pay will accelerate Market Pay’s rate of development and will benefit all our customers and partners.”
Frédéric Mazurier, CEO of Market Pay, commented: “Dejamobile is a strategic acquisition for Market Pay. It strengthens our technological expertise as well as our strategic positioning in our various markets while also accelerating the ability to expand Market Pay’s international footprint.
“The Dejamobile team, which has already developed innovative solutions partnering with us, will become core to Market Pay’s R&D processes on all mobile payment related activities. Following the Acoustic Payment investment, this additional acquisition further demonstrates our desire to rapidly grow the business and internationalise.”
Market Pay is an international and omni-channel payment platform. In the payment industry, it is the only French fintech that controls the entire payment chain and comes from the retail world. Market Pay supports retailers and pure players (mid-market and international brands) in the deployment of end-to-end innovative and simplified payment solutions. Hiding the complexity of payment to unleash all of its business value, bringing the last innovation to smaller merchants and being the unique speaker for all payment issues are the three missions it takes on. Founded in 2016 with today 150 employees, Market Pay is now established in France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Lithuania, Denmark and Brazil. In 2020, its platform handled 2.3bn transactions, 130,000 terminals and more than 5m cards issued for a total business volume of 29bn euros. Market Pay is managed by Frédéric Mazurier, CEO, and Isabelle Clairac, General Manager. For more information visit www.marketpay.eu
Dejamobile is a fintech company specialising in software solutions for secure mobile transactions. Dejamobile’s solutions enable payment issuers, fintechs and acquirers to easily and quickly deploy innovative digital payment services, based on the most advanced issuance and acceptance technologies (NFC, tokenization, HCE, Software POS, biometrics, software and hardware security, etc).
Founded in 2012, Dejamobile has around 40 employees and enjoys a strong international presence thanks to its customers and partners in 17 countries on 4 continents and representing more than 8m applications deployed worldwide. For more information visit www.dejamobile.com
AnaCap is a leading specialist mid-market private equity investor, investing through complementary Financial Services Private Equity and Credit strategies. Since 2005 the firm has raised €5.2 billion in gross AUM and completed over 100 primary investments across 16 European jurisdictions and India. AnaCap operates out of 7 offices in London, Luxembourg, New Delhi, Mumbai, Milan, Madrid and Lisbon.
The name AnaCap defines the investment approach: ‘Analytics before Capital’. Investment decisions are founded on a disciplined, operational and data-driven investment approach with support from Minerva, the digital proprietary intelligence platform.
Leveraging the deep expertise as financial sector investors, owners and operators, AnaCap is an active investor and generates value in private equity through their intense operational engagement model and carefully calibrated M&A programmes. In credit, their active asset management approach focuses on using data intelligently to enhance recoveries and provide servicing solutions.
Market Pay acquires Dejamobile was written by Sarah Clark and published by NFCW.
France-based supermarket chain Carrefour has opened its first contactless convenience store in Paris that allows customers to walk in, select the items they wish to purchase and pay for them without needing to register or check in at the entrance, download an app or scan their purchases with their mobile device or at a checkout.
The new Carrefour Flash 10/10 store in the French capital’s eleventh arrondissement incorporates 60 high-definition cameras and nearly 2,000 on-shelf sensors to identify the products customers select, “an algorithm for interpreting all the data and a proprietary tablet payment system”.
“Customers are tracked anonymously as a virtual avatar, allocated to them as soon as they enter the store,” Carrefour explains.
“The products that they pick up are automatically detected and then added to their virtual basket.
“Once they have finished shopping, customers just get their baskets validated at a kiosk and then pay contactlessly.
“They can get an electronic receipt sent to them immediately simply by scanning a QR code.
“An automatic checkout kiosk is also available for any customers wishing to pay with cash.”
Carrefour opened a contactless store in Dubai in September and also has six checkout-free outlets in Brazil.
Carrefour opens its first contactless store in Paris was written by Tom Phillips and published by NFCW.
