Visa International has opened up what it hopes will become a new front in Asia for contact less payment, with its VisapayWave application running on a new credit card issued by Singapore's United Overseas Bank. UOB has introduced the "One Card," which allows users to make purchases of up to S$700 (US$66.32) by tapping or waving the card over readers. Japanese banks and credit card companies had issued nearly 38 million Visa-branded smart cards that carried payment applications complying with the EMV standard as of the end of March, Visa International's Asia-Pacific branch announced last month. That makes Japan the country with the largest number of EMV cards on issue in the region and represented about 40% of Visa's card base in Japan.
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机译：Visa International凭借其VisapayWave应用程序在新加坡大华银行发行的新信用卡上运行，开启了希望成为亚洲新的无接触支付前沿的希望。大华银行推出了“一张卡”，该卡允许用户通过在读卡器上轻击或挥动卡来进行最高700新元（合66.32美元）的购买。 Visa International的亚太分公司上月宣布，截至3月底，日本银行和信用卡公司已发行了将近3,800万张Visa品牌的智能卡，这些智能卡带有符合EMV标准的支付应用程序。这使得日本成为该地区发行的EMV卡数量最多的国家，约占Visa在日本的卡基础的40％。
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