Mobile payment: sparkassen fresh payment app for android on

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Mobile payment: Sparkassen Fresh Payment App for Android on

The savings banks have their app "Pay mobile" a comprehensive update missed. With version 3.1.2 Receive the app for contactless usage to NFC terminals not only a fresh face, but also new features. In the medium term, the savings banks want the app to one "Mobile Payment Wallet" expanding with coarse functionality, S-Payment GmbH shared as publishers of the application on Tuesday.

The most recent innovation is the safety PIN that must be set up after the update. Access to the app itself is only possible after entering this pin, optionally but also by biometric unlocking functions of the smartphone such as the fingerprint. However, this additional backup has no effect on the payment process, which runs as before.

New look

Overall, the app is now more modern therefore, the overview page of the app has been redesigned. In addition to the active and other registered cards, the last transactions are also at a glance. The cards stored in the old app are supposed and need not be newly digitized.

According to the savings banks, the app is around 800.000 customers in use. Since the beginning of 2019, the app was used at 18 million transactions with a total turnover of 470 million euros. The app will "very well accepted", Said S-Payment Chef Erik Meierhoff.

"With the update, the savings bank financial group builds on this success and creates the technical basis for integration of other applications", Meierhoff said. The Sparkasse now wants to expand the app to a full-fledged wallet and integrate further payment methods, value-added programs, installment loans or the contactless use of ATMs.

Berlin starting difficulties

The savings banks had published the app for mobile pay to NFC terminals for the first time in the summer of 2018. After a few start-ups – tickets of the Berlin Sparkasse do not want to activate – the Android app has established itself. On the iPhone the cards are integrated directly in Apple Pay. Contactless payment is on the rise across Europe, which is known by cash-rich German Hangen in the acceptance but a bit behind.

Mobile pay 3.1.2 is available for download now in the Play Store.

In view of the famine catastrophe in East Africa, aid organizations have extended their support and again urgently appealed for donations. The United Nations also reported rapes of refugees in New York on Friday.

The U.N. special envoy on sexual violence, Margot Wallstrom, strongly condemned the rape of women and girls fleeing famine in Somalia. "I call on all parties to immediately stop this egregious violation of human rights," she said in New York on Thursday (local time). She said she has received reports of women and girls being subjected to brutal sexual violence as they flee to Kenya.

The perpetrators, it said, were members of militias, criminal gangs, but also troops of the Somali transitional government. Female refugees also faced new dangers in the refugee camp on the Kenyan side.

According to UN figures, around 3.7 million people, half of them from Somalia, are affected by the famine in the Horn of Africa. Tens of thousands of people have already succumbed to it.

Chronic
Welthungerhilfe drew attention to the fact that the crisis in the Horn of Africa is chronic. Therefore, emergency aid must be urgently combined with long-term measures, the relief organization explained in a "focus" on East Africa. Small-scale agriculture in the region must be promoted and people must be prepared for the consequences of climate change, he said. In addition, the local governments must ensure that all fertile land is not sold to international agricultural companies.

Meanwhile, Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe doubled its emergency aid to a total of four million euros. This would enable partner organizations in Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia to reach around half a million people. A relief flight next week is expected to bring more than six tons of medicine for children to Mogadishu.

The President of the German Red Cross (DRK), Rudolf Seiters, made an urgent appeal for more donations for the hungry. "The aid cannot be comprehensive and large enough," Seiters told the Dusseldorf-based "Rheinische Post" (Friday edition). The Dadaab refugee camp alone, on the border of Kenya and Somalia, which is responsible for 90.000 people had been erected, meanwhile, with 360.000 people completely overcrowded, said Seiters.

The aid organization World Vision accused the world community and the media of having reacted far too late to the drought. As recently as June, no one was interested in the appeals for help, criticized Christoph Waffenschmidt, chairman of the board of World Vision, in Berlin. He called for a bailout for East Africa. Just as aid to economically struggling EU countries is self-evident, he said, it is equally urgent for East Africa.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Africa envoy, Gunter Nooke (both CDU), defended the late international intervention. If the international community had already become involved in Kenya or Ethiopia at the beginning of the year, it would have relieved the two countries of their responsibility, said Nooke.

For the hungry in East Africa, Germans have donated at least 91 million euros so far. This is according to a survey presented by the German Central Institute for Social Ies (DZI) on Tuesday. 34 aid organizations and donation alliances were surveyed.

The Association of German Development Organizations (Venro) called on the German government to increase its aid. The federal government has raised 65.5 million euros so far. Other donor countries such as Japan, Great Britain and Australia were contributing significantly more, the association criticized. All in all, the immediate need is estimated by the United Nations at about one billion euros. On weekend development minister Dirk Niebel (FDP) wants to travel to Kenya.

Prelate Krzysztof Charamsa with his partner © Luciano Del Castillo

Monsignor Krysztof Charamsa © Luciano Del Castillo

Shortly before the Family Synod, Prelate Krzystof Charamsa had confessed his homosexuality – and was suspended. Now he has written a letter to Pope Francis.

Vatican prelate Krzystof Charamsa (43), suspended for confessing his homosexuality, has asked the pope for help. He had written a letter to Francis asking him to "open the hearts of the bishops" at the World Synod of Families, Charamsa said in an interview on Spain's Catalunya Radio (Wednesday).

Bishops must think of "all families" at synod, Charamsa says; minorities must not be left out. He said the Catholic Church must also recognize homosexuals. "We are good people and we defend family values," former Vatican official says.

Charamsa had come out as a homosexual in interviews in Italian and Polish media over the weekend, as well as at a press conference with his Catalan partner in Rome. The Vatican stripped the cleric of his post in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and revoked his teaching authority for papal colleges.

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