Until now, users have had to buy a special phone case or external “dongle” to use LoopPay, which raised early capital through the Kickstarter website in 2013. But incorporating its technology in Samsung phones could ramp up usage, setting the stage for a battle of competing payment systems between the world’s two largest smartphone producers.

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