Central Bank in Latin American Country Drives Nationwide Rollout of Open Loop; Can It Serve as a Model Elsewhere?

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In a first for Latin America and perhaps one of the only projects of its kind in the world, the Central Bank of Costa Rica is building a nationwide infrastructure for open-loop transit payments, as it seeks to ultimately eliminate cash on board its buses and...
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Exclusive: Group of Small Transit Agencies Confirms Plans to Roll Out Open-Loop Payments Under California Program

A group of rural transit agencies in far Northern California are in the process of signing contracts with vendors to roll out open-loop payments under the state-backed Cal-ITP program, perhaps the first agencies to confirm they are contracting with vendors...
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Rollouts of ‘VSAM’ Technology Finally Start to Pick Up Speed

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More than three years after it was introduced, a technology designed to make it easier and less costly for transit agencies to accept open-loop payments on their proprietary closed-loop terminals is still only live with a handful of agencies, all in Latin...
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Exclusive: Flowbird CEO Says He’s Confident of Winning Business in California Despite Exclusion from Cal-ITP

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The CEO of France-based ticketing and fare-payments provider Flowbird said the company will continue to pursue business in California for its open-loop technology despite not being selected for an open-loop contract by the state of California. [...]

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