ING Belgium Announces Support for Apple Pay

Nothing to do with the actual article, but I have a question about the photo in the article.

Can someone explain the ice cream cone that appears to be going through the ice cream itself? Is it a cone on top, some new fancy hipster city styled ice cream serving I have never heard of, or bad photo shop?

They didn't like Apple Pay because in the Benelux we have horrible stuff like Bancontact and Payconiq. No one really knows how Bancontact or Payconiq work, neither how private it is, but no one seems to care.
Eventually they caved it seems.

Well, Payconiq is easy to pay between strangers. Apple Pay won't replace that.

Nothing to do with the actual article, but I have a question about the photo in the article.

Can someone explain the ice cream cone that appears to be going through the ice cream itself? Is it a cone on top, some new fancy hipster city styled ice cream serving I have never heard of, or bad photo shop?

I think it’s supposed to show an ice cream with 2 cones, one from the bottom and one from the top, this screenshot is maybe more clear:

While I live pretty close to Belgium (actually in The Netherlands), I haven’t seen this style ice cream in real life either 😆

Wow they were fast!

ING Belgium (https://www.ing.be/en/retail) today announced support for Apple Pay, offering the bank's customers another way to pay using contactless without needing their physical debit card to hand.



The 1.4 million customers who do their banking via the ING Banking app will now be able to use their ING cards with Apple Pay to make payments even more easily, said the bank in a press release.
ING said it had recorded 51.5 million contactless payments during the first five months of 2021, compared to 21.5 million over the same period last year. The contactless payments are said to have accounted for half of all in-store debit card payments and had an average amount of €19.

With support for Apple Pay now live, ING customers will have the added benefit of paying for things using their iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac, without having to enter their PIN, even for amounts over 50 euros.

ING already offers Apple Pay in the Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain, Romania, Poland, Australia and Germany. Apple Pay launched in Belgium in November 2018. The digital payment method first launched in the United States in October 2014 and has since expanded to many other countries around the globe.


Article Link: ING Belgium Announces Support for Apple Pay (https://www.macrumors.com/2021/08/03/ing-belgium-supports-apple-pay/)

You guys forgot to post an article about Mexico. Starting today, support for Apple Pay is available with visa cards from several banks in Mexico. Previously only Amex and Mastercard were supported in the country.

I will not use Apple pay untill I understand why I would put an extra layer between my bank and the recipient of the money. I can produce my bank card faster than my iphone and my bank card is also more reliable.

For me, the biggest selling point is that using Apple Pay means the merchant gets a “one time use” credit card number on your behalf, and not your actual card number. Then if the merchant has a data breach and alerts customers that credit card info was compromised, you won’t have to worry since it was a temporary card number anyway.

And credit card companies like Apple Pay since the customer is being authenticated (by Touch or Face ID), thus lowering the odds of fraud, so they’re happy to give Apple their cut.

Over the years, I’ve had a couple of minor random charges appear on my credit card that the company quickly reversed for me. Maybe my card number was skimmed at a gas station or ATM, who knows. Nothing major for me to deal with, but I still enjoy the extra peace of mind Apple Pay gives.