Apple Pay to soon launch in Austria
While this piece of information is yet to be officially confirmed by Apple itself, it was intentionally leaked today by Erste Bank und Sparkasse, Austria’s largest bank. Apple Pay Austria
The bank’s Twitter account posted an image of an Erste-branded MasterCard card in the Wallet app, but no further information was provided. The bank also confirmed it’ll be launching support for Google Pay later this year, but no concrete timeframe was provided at post time.
At yesterday’s “It’s Showtime” media event, Apple announced its own credit card with no fees and featuring detailed reporting, daily cashback rewards, and other perks.
This summer, the digital Apple Card will work anywhere Apple Pay is accepted: from stores to apps to the web. And for those times when Apple Pay may not be accepted, the physical Apple Card will work just like any regular MasterCard-branded card.
Apple has predicted that its mobile payments service will zoom past the ten billion transaction milestone sometime in 2019, a major milestone.
Apple Pay’s retail acceptance is now at seventy percent in the US and even higher in other markets like Canada, the UK, and Australia, where the system has a 99 percent acceptance rate. By the end of this year, Apple Pay will be available in more than forty countries worldwide.
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Increasingly, merchants throughout Europe accept Apple Pay and other digital “contactless” payment systems; Apple pay is accepted in over 60 countries as of July 2021. Doing it all with a tap of your phone can alleviate security concerns about having pockets picked and cash-filled wallets stolen.
If you use Apple Pay to pay with a card overseas, that card’s same overseas charges, as discussed above, will apply. If you’re using the Apple Pay Cash card to pay (it’s accepted wherever Discover cards are), there’s a 3% across the board fee for international transactions.
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