@Charlie306 wrote:
yes mate I contacted curve directly and they rectified the situation, I didn't have an account after all but I did have to open an account with curve first then add the curve card to Samsung pay, all because yorkshire bank/ virgin money won't work with Samsung pay, I'd be interested to know why they won't!
thanks dude.
I've been fighting the problem that my bank only works with google pay and apple pay, which therefore excludes seemingly most wearables incl samsung, fitbit, garmin, etc (hence why i was interested in this thread).
Samsung pay card at least means i can potentially get a samsung watch (though it's not my first choice tbh).
Don't know what the pros/cons are of curve of course (haven't investigated). Not sure i like the chain required - more links = more things to go wrong / vulnerabilities.
Or of course i can do without NFC pay altogether 
but it does seem convenient.
Re: your question about why yorkshire/virgin won't work with samsung pay, maybe it's contractual & anti competition e.g. google pay says go with us, we're big but you can't go with others or maybe they're just cheaper than samsung? All pure speculation of course. I'd have thought banks have to be super confident about security and the more contactless systems you have the more risk there is of accounts getting compromised (and i assume they'd be liable). I'm not saying samsung pay is risky to use - i wouldn't know - but you get the idea.
There may be technical issues too, if this article is accurate: https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/05/09/google-pay-vs-samsung-pay-which-mobile-payment-provider-sho...
