By Tom Phillips[1] • • Updated • nfcw.com[2]
Passengers travelling on Moscow Metro can now buy and top up a Troika[3] transit card directly from within their mobile banking app.
The service is available to customers of Russia’s Sberbank[4] and enables them to use its mobile app’s ‘payments’ section to purchase a new Troika card or replenish an existing one by entering their Troika card number.
Once they have purchased a card, users “have to activate it: NFC-friendly Android owners can do it right in the app, other users must activate their card by touching it against a special yellow terminal in metro stations,” Moscow Metro explains.
Moscow Metro announced in January this year that it is to roll out Troika contactless ticketing[5] across the Russian capital’s entire public transportation network by the end of 2021.
It has also launched a project to expand “the city’s ticketing system to other regions of Russia. In total, more than 47 regions are interested in integrating the system,” the transport provider says.
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