HTTP/2 200 date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 15:16:19 GMT content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 set-cookie: __cfduid=d658763fe4f22dcee89b4dd3afb9de0731570547779; expires=Wed, 07-Oct-20 15:16:19 GMT; path=/; domain=.nfcw.com; HttpOnly; Secure link: ; rel="https://api.w.org/", ; rel=shortlink cache-provider: CLOUDWAYS-CACHE-DC last-modified: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 13:47:29 GMT vary: Accept-Encoding age: 5330 x-cache: HIT cf-cache-status: DYNAMIC expect-ct: max-age=604800, report-uri="https://report-uri.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/beacon/expect-ct" server: cloudflare cf-ray: 522913458af3ca5f-YUL Raiffeisen Bank picks Antelop for NFC payments and strong customer authentication • NFCW inc NFC World
PARTNER NEWS: Raiffeisen Bank[4] has launched an Android NFC mobile payments service in Romania and the Czech Republic that uses Antelop Solutions’ digital payments and tokenization platform[5].
The bank, one of the largest retail banking groups in Europe with 25 million customers in 15 countries, now plans to make the service available in additional territories.
It also plans to expand the service to include Antelop’s Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) solution[6].
Customers in Bulgaria and Serbia will be the next to gain access to the RaiPay NFC payments service.
The bank is also using Antelop’s Visa VTS and Mastercard MDES certified Issuer TSP Hub[7] to offer Apple Pay to its customers in Slovakia. Work is also now underway to launch this service in additional countries.
“RaiPay is a new type of lifestyle banking and payment app, where NFC is the first key element,” explains Tomas Janitor, head of business and innovation at Raiffeisen Processing Center (RPC). “Our strategy is to launch our own digital payment service in Europe, with the aim of completely reinventing the way we interact with our customers.”
“We chose to partner with Antelop as they demonstrated unique technical expertise in digital payments and tokenization,” Janitor says.
“The quality of their PCI DSS certified VTS/MDES platform and their
