Octopus has tried for years to push on taxi drivers its plastic contactless cards, which were launched in 1997 and are widely accepted in the city for small payments. Photo: David Wong Octopus has tried for years to push on taxi drivers its plastic contactless cards, which were launched in 1997 and are widely accepted in the city for small payments. Photo: David Wong
Octopus has tried for years to push on taxi drivers its plastic contactless cards, which were launched in 1997 and are widely accepted in the city for small payments. Photo: David Wong
Hong Kong taxis
Hong Kong /  Hong Kong economy

Octopus to try again to get Hong Kong’s 40,000 taxi drivers on board following moves by Alipay and WeChat Pay

Tailor-made app that acts as card reader to be rolled out for drivers in April amid efforts to get them off cash payments

Topic |   Hong Kong taxis
Denise Tsang
Denise Tsang

Updated: 11:33pm, 5 Mar, 2018

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Octopus has tried for years to push on taxi drivers its plastic contactless cards, which were launched in 1997 and are widely accepted in the city for small payments. Photo: David Wong Octopus has tried for years to push on taxi drivers its plastic contactless cards, which were launched in 1997 and are widely accepted in the city for small payments. Photo: David Wong
Octopus has tried for years to push on taxi drivers its plastic contactless cards, which were launched in 1997 and are widely accepted in the city for small payments. Photo: David Wong
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