Curve Announces Apple Pay Support for Customers Across Europe

[MacRumors]

Curve, the banking and payment service which connects several accounts to one smart card, today announced Apple Pay support for all users across Europe.

For those unfamiliar with the service, Curve is a payment card that aggregates multiple payment cards via its accompanying mobile app, allowing users to make payments and withdrawals from a single card.

In other words, you can load a Mastercard or Visa debit and credit cards to the Curve app, and spend using just the Curve Mastercard.

With Apple Pay support now active, the Curve card can be added to the Wallet app just like any other card, allowing it to be used via iPhone and Apple Watch anywhere that accepts contactless payments or displays the Apple Pay logo.

"We are thrilled to announce Apple Pay is here for all European Curve customers," said Diego Rivas, Curve's Head of Product-OS. "Curve's integration with Apple Pay is a magnificent addition to Curve's unique money management features, superbly complimenting Curve's commitment to simplifying and unifying people's financial lives and enabling even more ways for customers to pay with one of the most rewarding and feature-packed personal finance products on the market," added Rivas.

Curve is available in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom (excluding Crown Dependencies Jersey, Guernsey, and the Isle of Man).

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[cube4ever]

Too bad many card issuers have blocked adding their cards to Curve.

 

[bviktor]

Too late, Revolut already won. And they have their own physical card.

That is until local banks catch up. I'll switch to my "native" bank in a heartbeat, they're said to introduce AP in a few months.

 

[rikscha]

Too late, Revolut already won. And they have their own physical card.

That is until local banks catch up. I'll switch to my "native" bank in a heartbeat, they're said to introduce AP in a few months.

Where is it too late. Curve offers a very different service to Revolut and it’s not one or the other. Revolut for me is still just a simple and cheap way to transfer money across the globe for personal or business use.

 

[bpp85]

Sounds interesting. Can someone with a bit more experience maybe explain what’s is the difference between Curve and Revolut for example? Do I have to top up or just link the cards etc

 

[Robert.Walter]

What’s the point of having this card if one has their A/M/V cards in their Apple wallet?

Is this a workaround for debit card users whose banks haven’t released their debit cards for Apple Pay? If so what’s the cost for this service?

 

[itsmilo]

i have it but only used it once successfully. the few times i tried i got a payment rejected notification, especially abroad

 

[rmoliv]

I tried this because my main bank does not support Apple Pay yet. I regretted it the minute I tried to contact customer support - which as I found out is close to nonexistent. So beware!

 

[bviktor]

Where is it too late. Curve offers a very different service to Revolut and it’s not one or the other. Revolut for me is still just a simple and cheap way to transfer money across the globe for personal or business use.

Where people only use it to circumvent the lack of Apple Pay in their banks. That is, all my friends, and me. I don't need any other of the features these apps have. At all. Why do you think Revolut's userbase jumped right when they added Apple Pay? It's not that hard to connect the dots.

Also, this news is about Curve adding Apple Pay, FYI. All I was stating is that they won't get any new customers with this, whoever needed AP has already signed up to Revolut.

 

[rikscha]

Where people only use it to circumvent the lack of Apple Pay in their banks. That is, all my friends, and me. I don't need any other of the features these apps have. At all. Why do you think Revolut's userbase jumped right when they added Apple Pay? It's not that hard to connect the dots.

Also, this news is about Curve adding Apple Pay, FYI. All I was stating is that they won't get any new customers with this, whoever needed AP has already signed up to Revolut.

Don’t think the boonies are the main target market 😬
If you live in a place like London, this isn’t an argument. Apple Pay has been around for all my cards for many years.
i didnt bother adding revolut to my wallet. Simply no reason and i stand by what I said. Curve is much more useful and will enable you to get ApplePay for all your existing cards that don’t support it yet as well. I like both services don’t get me wrong but Curve is much more useful on a daily basis helping me to carry several national and international debit/credit
Cards with me at all times.

 

[shieldcy]

I had the same question.

I am from Europe but I still can’t see the point of Curve when you have Apple Pay and Apple Wallet (with Revolut or local bank cards) ??

The only benefit I can see is the combined stats for all cards (which the Apple Wallet doesn’t have) and the cashbacks.

Is there any other benefit or difference from Apple Pay/Wallet?