Three Taiwanese banks are seeking to enable their customers to tap their mobile phones to make purchases with MasterCard PayPass using microSD cards in a full Android NFC phone from HTC, as well as an iPhone attachment with an embedded chip, as part of separate NFC mobile-payment projects.
The banks, Cathay United Bank, E.Sun Bank and Taishin Bank, plan to issue the PayPass credit applications for the projects, including the first project outside of China with a payment application stored on microSDs that plug in full NFC phones and connect to the NFC chip and antenna via a single-wire protocol connection, NFC Times has learned.
Separately, Cathay United has already launched on the locally produced NFC-enabled iPhone attachment and E.Sun plans to do so soon, enabling customers with the iPhone 4 and 4S to tap to pay where PayPass is accepted. Taishin plans to follow, though has not yet received regulatory approval.