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Oliver Haslam

Apple to make huge Apple Pay change in EU shake-up — developers to get NFC access without Apple Pay or Wallet as company seeks to avoid massive antitrust fine

Apple Pay paying for coffee.

Apple has reportedly settled an ongoing EU antitrust investigation into the way it controls access to its iPhone NFC payment system and avoided a potentially huge fine in the process. The EU took issue with the way that Apple was preventing other companies from using iPhone contactless payment systems outside of Apple Pay and the Wallet app.

Without an agreement, the EU could potentially have levied Apple with a sizable fine but that now appears to have been avoided.

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