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RBC launches HCE mobile payments in North America

Tuesday 15 September 2015 09:11 CET | News

Financial institution The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has gone live with a host card emulation (HCE) mobile payment service following a pilot in December 2014.

The bank has rolled out HCE to the RBC Wallet within the RBC Mobile app. HCE will allow RBC’s clients to use any NFC-enabled Android phone to pay at the point-of-sale using their RBC Wallet.

Earlier this month the bank was awarded a patent for its Secure Cloud mobile payments platform by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, covering the use of secure tokens by the bank’s clients to facilitate payments from mobile devices.


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