Curve Pay Launches iPhone NFC Payments as Apple Pay Alternative

British fintech institution Curve has launched contactless payments for iPhone users successful the European Union, becoming the 2nd third-party outgo work aft PayPal to instrumentality vantage of Apple's recently opened NFC interface (via iphone-ticker.de).


The Curve Pay app allows users to marque tap-to-pay purchases without utilizing Apple Pay oregon the Wallet app, pursuing PayPal's debut of akin functionality successful Germany earlier this month. The diagnostic was made imaginable by Europe's Digital Markets Act, which forced Apple to unfastened its NFC spot to third-party developers.

Unlike accepted wallet apps, Curve Pay operates arsenic an autarkic outgo authorization alternatively than simply passing done stored paper data. Users tin reassign purchases to antithetic cards aft completing transactions and nexus assorted outgo sources including PayPal accounts.

The app besides provides real-time spending analytics and automated cashback programs. Its "staged wallet" architecture besides gives users much power implicit the outgo process compared to accepted integer wallets.

Curve claims much than six cardinal users crossed its platform, which was antecedently disposable lone connected Android devices. The institution joins PayPal successful offering European iPhone users alternatives to Apple Pay, with German cooperative banks besides readying to present their ain NFC outgo solution done their banking app this September.

NFC entree is disposable for banking and wallet apps successful the European Economic Area, which includes the 27 European Union countries positive Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.
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