(Finance) – The mobile payment service with Huawei Pay. Thanks to partnership with Intesa Sanpaolo and BANCOMATHuawei Pay will be available in Italy from today, the payment wallet that will allow holders of a card issued by Intesa Sanpaolo on the PagoBANCOMAT circuit to use their Huawei smartphone to make contactless payments in authorized stores.
With the new service, the digital payments market of the national ATM circuit is growing. The operation – explains the company in a note – is in continuity with the strategy launched by the new industrial plan of the company which aims to reach 3.3 billion transactions by 2027 thanks also to the creation of new technological assets and new initiatives aimed at to grow the digital offer. The presence as the only circuit in Italy in the digital portfolio of the third app distribution platform available today will further encourage the use of digital tools for daily micropayments. The Smobile payment service it represents a novelty for the Italian market also in function of the new method of digitization of the paper envisaged. In fact, with Huawei Pay, the ATM starts the first solution in Europe for enrollment of the PagoBANCOMAT card via NFC. For all holders of PagoBANCOMAT cards issued by Intesa Sanpaolo it will in fact be possible to start the digitization of the cards in the wallet by simply touching their card to the Huawei device, which will automatically read the data while ensuring maximum convenience and total security.
The methods of use during payment preview a few steps: by placing the Huawei smartphone at the POS it is possible to activate the transaction using the Pay button and, in the event that the device screen is locked, simply click the double side button and authorize with the fingerprint recognition.
“The announcement of the availability of Huawei Pay marks an important moment both for the company, which confirms the constant commitment to expand the AppGallery offer, and for Huawei users who now have an additional mobile service available to them. facilitates in everyday life, simply with a smartphone – he declares Pier Giorgio Furcas, deputy general manager of Huawei Consumer Business Group Italy -. We are very satisfied with the collaboration we have carried out with Intesa Sanpaolo and BANCOMAT SpA to obtain a concrete result in terms of innovation and digital transformation. Active for the first time in Italy, we expect that in the future it will be able to extend to other European countries. “
In Italy HUAWEI AppGallery it has over 6.3 million monthly active users and has 12 thousand apps in 18 categories, of which the banking ones have been among the most implemented in recent months.
“The demand for contactless payments is constantly growing. More and more people prefer the use of digital tools for mobile payments. The convenience of dematerializing cards on mobile phones – he says Oscar Occhipinti, Marketing & Commercial Director of BANCOMAT SpA – it has become an indispensable habit for an increasingly large number of consumers. Today, with Huawei Pay, we are strengthening the digital presence of ATMs with the aim of increasingly expanding our digital market shares. All for the benefit of the more than 34 million Italians who use our PagoBANCOMAT® cards every day and whom we want to support by making money transactions ever simpler and more immediate “.
“Intesa Sanpaolo is the first bank in Europe to make Huawei Pay available to its customers,” he declares Claudia Vassena, Head of Sales & Marketing Digital Retail at Intesa Sanpaolo – they will thus have an additional tool to pay for their purchases using their smartphone: a simple, fast, safe and also sustainable gesture to make mobile payment a daily habit. With Huawei Pay, one of the most innovative solutions on the market, Intesa Sanpaolo looks forward to an increasingly cashless world and confirms its leadership and commitment to spreading digital culture, also in response to new trends and the needs of an ever-increasing audience. more vast and heterogeneous in terms of age and expectations “.