Samsung Pay officially goes live in Hong Kong

After a month-long early access programme, the Korean tech giant Samsung has officially launched Samsung Pay in the Hong Kong market.Supporting payments via both near field communication (NFC) and Samsung’s proprietary magnetic secure transmission (MST) technologies, Samsung Pay can be used almost anywhere a point-of-sale (POS) terminal is available.MST sends a magnetic signal from the supported Samsung device to the payment terminal’s card reader (to emulate swiping a physical card), allowing Samsung Pay to work almost anywhere cards are accepted.“We are happy to have received overwhelming, positive responses from users of Samsung Pay’s Early Access Program,” said Yiyin Zhao, vice president and head of information technology and mobile communication business for Samsung Electronics H.K. Co. Ltd.“We look forward to building a complete digital wallet solution in Hong Kong, which will allow users to not only pay conveniently, but also use membership cards and many more.”It is available on Galaxy S8+, Galaxy S8, Galaxy S7 edge, Galaxy S7, Galaxy S6 edge+ and Galaxy Note5.