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Disneyland Paris to pilot contactless payments from October 2009

Thursday 30 July 2009 13:19 CET | News

Starting October 2009, Disneyland Paris will trial a NFC and contactless card payments system for shops and restaurants, in collaboration with French financial services providers Crédit Mutuel and CIC.

The initiative is aimed at Disneyland Paris annual pass holders who are customers of the above-mentioned banks and who have a valid bank card as well as an account at a Paris-based branch. The testers number is expected to reach 100 for NFC phones and 1,000 for contactless readers. Participants will be using a Sagem My700x Contactless NFC phone offered by mobile operator NRJ Mobile, which is owned by Crédit Mutuel CIC, while payments will be charged directly to the users Crédit Mutuel or CIC bank card.


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Keywords: Disneyland Paris, NFC, contactless payment, mobile payment, NRJ Mobile, Crédit Mutuel CIC
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