Became known date of the official launch of the payment system, Apple Pay on the territory of our country, as well as declassified the name of her primary partner. As it turned out, the support system will be engaged first of all the “savings” which, in fact, leaking information regarding the starting operation of the system.
In Russia, Apple Pay is expected to be launched tomorrow, October 4, so all modern “IPhones” can be used as a high-tech wallet. The date became known from Twitter, where user a number of questions about the timing of the launch was given quite a clear and unambiguous answer, one of which is depicted in the screenshot. Earlier Apple said that will launch its payment system in us this fall and was wondering what all will happen simultaneously with the start of sales of the iPhone 7 held on 23 September. However, the time difference is less than two weeks, so not so sad.
In addition to “Sberbank”, Apple Pay will work with the Raiffeisen Bank, Tinkoff credit systems, VTB 24, Bank “OTKRITIE” and Yandex.Money. In the tests involved Alfa-Bank, Sberbank, Binbank, “Russian standard”, as well as retailers Dixy”, “Victoria” and M. Video. Payment system works on iPhone 5 and newer models. The fourth and earlier generations are no longer supported. By the way, on September 29 in Russia earned payment system Samsung Pay.
