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The new iPhone 6 from Apple, which launches on Tuesday, Sept 9, would use near field communication (NFC) and tokenisation technologies for payment initiatives. The iWatch would also offers the two technologies, the Web site Bankinginnovation.net cites sources from the Cupertino-based firm.

Besides the insider information from Apple and people who know more details about the new smartphone, the portal also cited that it discovered that Apple's interest in tokenisation technology goes back to a 2009 patent related to the tokenisation process.

Another proof of the NFC was test inside an Apple store and its retail partners, specifically Bloomingdale, that now use the Verifone MX 915 terminal for their point-point-of-sale terminals, which is different from mobile-point-of-sale terminals powered by non-iOS operating systems.

Under tokenisation, card issuers and networks replaces the use of 16-digit primary account with numbers with complex codes that are easily transmittable over the air and between gadgets, but are just for one use, rendering it useless to fraudster if they intercept the code.

Brad Green, Visa vice president of digital solutions, confirmed, "[Tokenization] certainly addresses security and fraud ... tokens provide innovators with flexible, purposed, and driven credentials in their customers' experiences instead of actual data."

"If tokens are intercepted by an attacker ... [they] would be worthless or greatly diminished," he added.

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Meanwhile, Valuewalk reports that Ben Slater, an Australian man from Brisbane had a microchip the size of a grain implanted in his left hand at a local tattoo shop in anticipation of the iPhone 6 roll out.

With the implant, Slater - an advertising executive - could control the new Apple flagship gadget with the move of his left hand. He anticipates that with an iPhone 6 which he plans to buy upon its Sept 9 launch, he could open his home front door, turn on electric lights and connect files with data related to health records as well as names, addresses and phone numbers of contacts by the mere flick of his hand, which is still on a healing process for two weeks.

For Aussies, chip implants are new, but in the US it has been introduced 10 years ago in 2004. Ben's wife, however, thinks the idea is crazy, while some Christian groups may even link the implant to the Biblical mark of the beast which is supposed to be a forerunner of the Apocalypse.

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