Viva.com Activates Cartes Bancaires on Tap to Pay on iPhone

Viva.com has achieved another first among acquirers like Adyen, Banque Populaire, Caisse d’Epargne, and BNP Paribas. The company has activated Cartes Bancaires (CB), a leading card and mobile payment and withdrawal system in France, on Tap to Pay on iPhone. This move allows businesses to accept contactless payments from nearly 76 million card or mobile holders in the CB scheme.

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Collaborative Success

The successful integration of CB on Tap to Pay on iPhone is the result of two months of intense collaboration between CB, Frenchsys, Elitt, and Viva.com. Loÿs Moulin, Development Director at CB, expressed his satisfaction with Viva.com’s rapid adaptation of its Terminal app to accommodate this feature.

Samy Touboul, Head of E-Commerce & Enterprise at Viva.com France, emphasized that connecting with local financial systems and enabling direct connectivity to dominant local payment schemes has been crucial to Viva.com’s expansion in its 24 European markets. He expressed honor at being the first acquirer to make CB available on Tap to Pay on iPhone, emphasizing that this development will simplify payments for merchants and millions of CB cardholders.