This is a matter that North American card acquirers, such as Moneris, and Paymenttech must consider otherwise the merchant experience will be terrible, and that would translate into consumer confusion.

Card Technology, The Smart Card News Source

Three of Japan’s largest convenience store chains are reportedly in talks to accept multiple brands of contactless credit and electronic purses on the same card readers. Without interoperable readers, consumers would be confused about where they could use a particular brand of contactless payment and merchants would have to install multiple readers.