“In many emerging countries like Nigeria, Kenya, Philippines and Indonesia, there are billions of users who have MasterCard and Visa cards, but don’t have access to Google Pay,” Shubin said in an interview. “Another problem concerns countries with big market share of Huawei smartphones, since due sanctions from the U.S. government, there are no Google services on top of these phones.”
Source: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/02/20/mastercards-latest-crypto-loyalty-scheme-aims-to-plug-google-pay-gaps/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines