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Australia banks agree Android Pay deal, Apple Pay still frozen out

December 16, 2015May 15, 2017 publisher accept-payments, better-solution, broader-efforts, california, first-half-2016, flow, giant-struggles, israel, mobile-devices, sawitta, the-possibility, westpac-banking

By Swati Pandey SYDNEY (Reuters) – Big Australian banks have agreed to accept payments made on mobile devices using Google Inc's Android Pay, leaving Apple Inc's rival Apple Pay system out in the cold as the tech giant struggles to coax lenders to accept its terms. Banks including Westpac Banking Corp , ANZ Banking Group and Macquarie will accept contactless payments via Android smartphones when Google rolls out the service in first-half 2016, the tech giant said on Wednesday.