I wonder. Is it because Samsung stores their SamsungPay transaction data locally instead of pushing them to some cloud service based in the US?

BNM is very particular on this!

Apple has an office here with the necessary setup here especially when you see services in Malaysia already charged in RM. If they weren't here nor set up here, all prices would still be in USD$.
I have dealt with the local office here and local staff here in several projects

check this out:
APPLE MALAYSIA SDN BHD
https://www.emis.com/php/company-profile/MY...en_4208275.html

I don't think Samsung Pay need to apply license with BNM? now there are so many Lazada Pay, Shopee Pay, Grab Pay, and Capital A pay. I still don't understand why not APPLE Pay.

I don't think the cloud service located in USA. Probably there is one Cloud Server in Singapore, which they didn't disclosed?

Samsung Pay I believe went thru similar bureaucracy as AP. On why then BNM is so "pushy" wanting requirement A, B, C for AP, that's something we might never know.
Also, who knows, maybe SP and banks also took them few years doing it at the back without our knowledge (SP was first intro in SK @ 20th Aug 2015 while locally is launched in 24th February 2017).
Maybe SP and AP's backend (disaster recovery etc etc) works different and because of the ever changing and advancement of tech and scams, BNM probably getting stricter and stricter.
And maybe who knows, this AP project by the local banks has only started maybe exactly 1 year ago only. SP took 2 years. So, chill lo. Can those insiders confirm this? hahaha


Btw, Genting has a vending machine in First World Plaza that takes GP, SP and AP.

Yes, the banks who implemented Samsung Pay also went through the same process with BNM (I was with a local bank when the team was going through that process) and it took a while as well. Just that the curiousity from the community wasn't as high as that.

Expect somewhere around August/September based on the project deferment.

They have been upping their game and requirement recently. Not so easy to get their OK recently.

5/6months to go🥲

Or it can be years to come 😭

Now can add into Apple Wallet too! Those already added into Health, go to Health app and tap on ur covid vaccination details and then tap on the newly enlightened “Add to Wallet” button!

Awesome stuff, thanks for the update!

Vaccine card can be add into wallet now, seem like our vaccine QR has joined the EU standard

The word ‘AstraZeneca’ also can be recognized already
Previously use the app to generate one show ? mark

https://soyacincau.com/2022/04/09/enhanced-...s-how-it-works/

Finally the NFC TnG card coming and taking advantage of iPhone's NFC function

Lets hope this opens up adding tng card to apple pay

I think AP eats some small fee on every tap. Recently only TnG willing to let go of 10-20% of the parking surcharge so do you think TnG is gonna let another part of their $$ flow out?

Wishful thinking but I really do hope they do. Not sure with our little AP-enabled neighbour country have their ezlink card able to add into AP or not but afaik, Wise SG’s card can be set to Transit Mode (cause I have it)

With this, we can go to EU?

saw the maybank reply on apple pay

sabar bro sabar
5 tahun already tunggu takkan 5 bulan tak boleh
XD

ya loh
unless willing to pay the expensive exchange fees to get other countries' card
otherwise just 'force' to wait wait wait...