Badge Opens Access to Apple and Google Wallets

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Badge Opens Access to Apple and Google Wallets

There are more than 3.00 billion smartphones worldwide with preinstalled Apple and Google wallets. At a combined 1.10 billion, Apple Pay and Google Pay apps dominate the usage of those wallets. However, both wallets can support far more functionality than a simple static payment app. Badge offers card issuers, retailers and other companies the infrastructure layer technology that turns Apple and Google wallets into programmable, real-time interactive channels that can be used for branded loyalty and rewards programs, membership passes, private label prepaid cards, tickets, marketing message...

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