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G&D, Caixabank Give Away Operative Wristbands for Contactless Payments at MWC

G&D customers can make small payments in a variety of shops in Barcelona.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Giesecke & Devrient (G&D), in collaboration with CaixaBank, will distribute wearable wristbands for contactless payments among MWC 2017 attendees. The wristbands, manufactured by G&D, are lightweight, submersible and ergonomically designed.   There will be 936 million people using this technology to make payments by 2021, and the value of transactions will exceed €471,000 million.   They integrate a security chip based on Java technology where the CaixaBank payment application ha...

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