In Russia earned payments service Android Pay

On may 23, Google starts to work with customers payments service Android Pay in Russia. The system includes most of the largest banks in the country, among which “AK bars”, “alpha Bank” “Binbank” “VTB-24”, “MTS Bank”, “Opening” (and owned by the “Rocketbank”), “PSB”, “Raiffeisen Bank” Rosselkhozbank, “Russian standard”, Sberbank, “Tinkoff” Bank for entrepreneurs “Point”, and Yandex.Money. The application will be bound to the card users of Visa and MasterCard. In addition, Android Pay will allow you to store all your discount cards, bonus cards “Magnit”, “Perekrestok”, Starbucks, KFC, “METRO”, “Lenta”, “Rosneft” and so on.

A special application can be installed on smartphones running under the operating system not lower Anroid 4.4 KitKat, and smart watches with Android Wear 2.0. In both cases, the gadget must be equipped with a NFC sensor.

As the experience of Apple Pay and Samsung Pay, working in our country since autumn of last year, users quickly learn the system of contactless payments and not ready to give it up. Pay for purchases at all outlets, fitted with the appropriate equipment.
At the moment, Android Pay is available in USA, UK, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and several other countries.

For Muscovites the same Google together with the Metropolitan of the capital have prepared a share, from 23 may to 23 June, residents and guests of Moscow will be able to ride the subway and the Moscow Central ring with 50% discount, provided payment through Android Pay. First, the ticket price will be debited from your card at 100% size, and within 10 minutes the account will return 50 percent of the cost of the trip. Internet access optional: payment will be if the 3G connection is unstable or it is not.

Source: Google, mos.ru