National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) launches Google Pay for its customers

National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) launches Google Pay for its customers

National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) has announced today launching Google Pay for its customers, enabling NBK Cardholders to take advantage of simple and secure contactless payments and digital card storage on both Android and WearOS devices. Through this service, NBK Cardholders will be able to store NBK Credit and Debit cards within Google Wallet, a digital wallet that is concurrently launching in Kuwait, and make payments anywhere contactless payments are accepted. In addition to payment cards, cardholders will also be able to save and access loyalty cards and boarding passes and event tickets in the Google wallet. Using Google Pay also makes payments safer with multiple layers of security, adding to the protections already provided by NBK card.

This includes industry-standard tokenization, which means when you use your card stored in Google Wallet to pay, transactions are made using a virtual card number (a token). This token is device-specific and associated with a dynamic security code that changes with each transaction, providing an extra layer of protection from fraud. Moreover, if the phone is ever lost or stolen, the user can simply access it through the “Find my device” function to instantly lock the device from anywhere, secure it with a