Apple plans to soon launch Apple Pay in the region EMEIA, indicates a vacancy on the company's website. Contactless payment technology based on NFC, built-in iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and Watch , was developed in conjunction with leading brands - Visa, MasterCard and American Express.
According to the job description, the new Apple employee should own European languages - French, German, Italian or Spanish - and have good organizational skills. The applicant to be a difficult task for the withdrawal of Apple Pay in the region EMEIA (Europe, Middle East, India and Africa). Vacancy for a full-time opened on Wednesday, offered to work in London.
According to reports, Apple is planning to launch Apple Pay in Europe and other countries EMEIA in 2015. In practice, this means that the people of the region will be able to update their information on credit and debit cards of local banks in smartphones iPhone 6. After that the device can be used for contactless payments in stores or online payment "one touch".
A few days ago, the newspaper The New York Times led the list of American companies and banks, announced in recent weeks to support transactions using Apple Pay. The list includes banks such as Associated Bank, BB & T, Black Hills FCU, Commerce Bank, Dupaco Community Credit Union, Idaho Central Credit Union, First Tennessee Bank, TD Bank North America, WesBanco and UW Credit Union. Starting Tuesday, they officially integrated with a payment service from Apple.
In September, it was reported that Visa conducts joint work with Apple to launch Apple Pay in Europe. Pedro Sousa, head of contactless mobile payments and Visa Europe, said the company does not have a confirmed date of launch of the service, but the service will be in the EU in 2015. He expressed the opinion that the way Apple's segment of contactless payments is a turning point for the company and for the system of mobile payments.
Apple still has not released official data on indicators Apple Pay. According to executive director Tim Cook, in October for the first 72 hours of work in the new service were more than 1 million payment cards.