{"id":483531,"date":"2026-06-04T23:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T23:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/483531\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T23:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T23:57:11","slug":"visa-enables-garmin-pay-in-the-philippines-yugatech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/483531\/","title":{"rendered":"Visa enables Garmin Pay in the Philippines \u00bb YugaTech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visa has announced the launch of Garmin Pay in the Philippines, allowing users of compatible Garmin smartwatches to make contactless payments using supported Visa cards.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/garmin-kv-720x509.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"509\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-426359\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The feature is currently available for eligible Visa debit and credit cards issued by participating banks, including GoTyme Bank, as well as supported foreign-issued Visa cards.<\/p>\n<p>Garmin Pay allows users to tap their smartwatch at contactless payment terminals without using a physical card or smartphone. Transactions use Visa\u2019s tokenization technology, which replaces card details with digital tokens to help reduce fraud risks.<\/p>\n<p>Visa said the Philippines is now the fourth Southeast Asian market to support Garmin Pay after Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, and Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>The company added that the launch expands digital payment options in the country following the rollout of Google Wallet and Google Pay in the Philippines in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Supported features<\/p>\n<p>Contactless payments via compatible Garmin smartwatches<br \/>\nVisa card support<br \/>\nTokenized payment security<br \/>\nWorks on contactless-enabled terminals<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tGet the YugaTech Daily \u2014 Stories every morning.<\/p>\n<p>React to this article:<\/p>\n<p>                        \ud83d\udc4d<\/p>\n<p>                        \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>                        \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n<p>                        \ud83d\ude2e<\/p>\n<p>                        \ud83d\ude22<\/p>\n<p>                        \ud83d\ude21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Visa has announced the launch of Garmin Pay in the Philippines, allowing users of compatible Garmin smartwatches to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[74535,8184,208007,208008,61,60,202,1666,1535,80,15788],"class_list":["post-483531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-contactless-payments","tag-digital-payments","tag-garmin-pay","tag-gotyme-bank","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mobile","tag-philippines","tag-smartwatch","tag-technology","tag-visa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}