Russia’s Mir Domestic Payments System Adds Support for NFC Payments

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“The new Mir Pay service uses tokenization and is supported on NFC phones running Android 6.0 Marshmallow and above. Eight of the more than 160 banks that issue Mir cards have signed up to take part in the initial rollout — Russian Agricultural BankRussian National Commercial BankCenter-invest BankSMP BankBank RussiaUBRDCredit Bank of Moscow and Promsvyazbank.”