The launch of Apple Pay in Ukraine is expected in Q2, 2018.
The payment system Apple Pay, through which it will become possible to pay for purchases in shops, using smartphone or smartwatch, is about to work on the territory of Ukraine very soon.
Thus, the payment service Apple Pay can be launched on the Ukrainian market in Q2, 2018, New Time reports, Head of Electronic Business of Alfa-Bank Ukraine Maxim Patrin said, quoting the anonymous source in one of the payment systems, operating on the Ukrainian market, PaySpace Magazine reports.
Alfa-Bank launched a new digital service Alfa Digital, which will provide services for clients, who want to have access to finance online or via mobile application. This service will allow adding banking cards to Apple Pay after the launch of the service on the local market.
The bank noted that the experience of other countries shows that the interest in mobile payments starts growing only after the market appearance of Apple Pay and Samsung Pay. After at least one of the named systems enters Ukrainian market, Alfa will also add such option to its mobile application. The clients will be able to add its card to the Apple Pay wallet via mobile banking.
It should be reminded that such payment systems, as Apple Pay, Android Pay and Samsung Pay, are currently not available in Ukraine.
In May, Apple officially launched Apple Pay in Italy. Now, the service is available in 16 countries – Australia, China, Canada, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Great Britain and the USA.
