A fourth city in Finland is beginning to roll out contactless open-loop payments, with âmore in the pipeline,â according to one supplier on the project, making the Nordic country one of the latest hotspots for the technology.
Open-loop projects in the Finnish capital Helsinki, along with two other top five urban areas in the country, Tampere and Oulu, went live this year. The latest, HĂ€meenlinna, a small city 100 kilometers north of Helsinki, launched late last month, according to Littlepay, which is supplying what it calls transit payments processing for all four projects.
It says there are more projects to come, with a centralized procurement company, co-owned by more than 20 Finnish cities, helping to set up the open-loop projects.