Paying contactless isn’t new in Central and Eastern Europe–in fact, in many places it’s the norm. With Android Pay, Google wanted to make it easier for locals to leave their wallets at home at places they know and love.
“And in a region full of Android fans, we’re excited to see it’s already taking off! A few weeks ago, we launched Android Pay in Ukraine. Today, it’s available in Czech Republic and Brazil, and soon it’ll be live in Slovakia, too.” says Pali Bhat, VP of Product Management, Payments.
Ukraine’s Finance Minister Oleksandr Danylyuk was the country’s first person to try Android Pay when we launched on November 1, demonstrating how it works on the Kiev Metro.
On the other side of the globe in Brazil, contactless payments are just picking up speed. Brazil is the first Latin American country to get Android Pay, and we’re looking forward to helping contactless payments become part of people’s everyday routines.
Source: Google
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„So many people are coming here to Bucharest, people that I see and interact on linkedin and now I get the change to meet them in person. It was like being to the Football World Cup but this was the World Cup on linkedin in payments and open banking.”
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