This sounds great! Does anyone know what this means for Google Pay and Apple Pay? In this country there's not a single bank anymore that offers contactless payments without going through Google or Apple...

I blame Apple, who hindered the adoption of alternative NFC payment apps by disallowing access to the hardware for developers.

Banks wanted to make their own payment solution but since they definitely couldn't on iOS it was pointless to come up with a separate solution for Android. So, they negotiated a contract with both tech firms and that was it.