Transit Agency: High Bank Card Fees Would Limit Open-Loop Rollouts in U.S.

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A top revenue manager for Sacramento Regional Transit, the agency serving California’s capital city, said he believes there won’t be widespread rollouts of open-loop payments in California or throughout the U.S. until payments networks and banks reduce...
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Transport for London Sees Open-Loop Revenue Return to Pre-Pandemic Levels

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Contactless open-loop payments revenue has already returned to pre-pandemic levels in London, despite ridership on the London Underground still around one-third lower than in 2019 and bus ridership down by around 20%. [...]

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Exclusive: French Cities Make Move to Open-Loop Payments, Though Paris Holds Back

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France had fallen behind such open-loop payments hotspots in Europe as the UK and Italy. But it has been catching up over the past couple of years, starting with small to medium-sized cities. [...]

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Stockholm Transit Agency Sees Strong Growth in Open-Loop Payments During First Year of Service

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Nearly a year after Storstockholms Lokaltrafik, or SL, in Stockholm launched open-loop payments for its multimodal transport network, the agency was seeing around 15% of its total fare revenue coming from contactless EMV payments, according to figures...
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