Mastercard has joined forces with Tappy Technologies to let fashion brands add contactless payments to watches, jewellery, and other accessories.
Mastercard and Tappy’s payment technologies’ will be firstly used by Timex Group, beginning with ‘a variety of collections and straps’. These will be sold separately and made available for purchase on Timex.com from H1 of 2020.
As per the agreement, the collaboration integrates Tappy’s contactless payment chips with Mastercard’s tokenization technology, in a bit to enable payment functionality in a limitless range of fashion accessories, starting with Timex Group’s analogue watches.
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