Barclaycard is to expand the functionality of its Android mobile app to include NFC mobile payments, allowing customers to make purchases at more than 300,000 locations in the UK as well as across the London transport network from November 2015... More
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M&S Bank adds Apple Pay support
Customers of the UK’s M&S Bank can now access Apple Pay using their M&S debit and credit cards... More
Lloyds Banking Group goes live with Apple Pay
The UK’s Lloyds Banking Group has confirmed that its Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland customers can use Apple Pay from today, following reports last week that customers had successfully added their cards to the mobile payment service... More
UK restaurant chains adopt Qkr! mobile payments
UK restaurant chains ASK Italian, Zizzi and Carluccio’s are the latest to sign up to Qkr!, MasterCard’s mobile payment solution that lets customers pay their bill using their mobile device and MasterPass directly from the table... More
13% of UK consumers have made an in-store mobile payment
Some 13% of UK consumers have made an in-store mobile payment, up from 3% last year, Deloitte’s Mobile Consumer 2015 report reveals... More
Lloyds and Halifax prep Apple Pay launch
Customers of UK banks Lloyds Bank and Halifax are reporting that they have successfully added their cards to Apple Pay... More
UK black cabs to get Bluetooth beacons
Commuters in taxi cabs across the UK cities of London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester and Birmingham will soon receive context-relevant messages as they travel... More
Manchester to get mobile ticketing and contactless payments
Commuters across the UK city of Manchester will soon be able to buy Metrolink tickets using a Get Me There mobile app and make contactless payments for printed tickets at more than 250 machines, Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) has announced... More
Norwich Points to reward shoppers for mobile payments
More than 100 retailers in the UK city of Norwich have teamed up with mobile payment and loyalty app provider Droplet to launch an umbrella loyalty scheme that will allow users to earn points every time they make a purchase using their phone... More
Lloyds Bank close to adding Apple Pay support
Lloyds Bank is close to launching support for Apple Pay in the UK after being a notable absence from the list of supporting banks when the mobile payment service launched in July... More
TSB offers contactless cashback incentive
UK bank TSB is rewarding customers with 5% cashback on the first £100 (US$152) spent from a Classic Plus account each month using a contactless debit card... More
Lyle & Scott creates contactless payment jacket with bPay
Scottish knitwear brand Lyle & Scott has begun selling a contactless jacket that comes equipped with Barclaycard bPay technology to enable the wearer to make payments with a tap of the cuff at any contactless terminal... More
Ingenico joins WorldPay bidding war
Point-of-sale terminal maker Ingenico has submitted a bid for UK-based payment processor WorldPay... More
Payments boost from contactless limit rise
The UK contactless limit increase from £20 to £30 could enable an extra three million Visa contactless transactions a day, worth more than £70m, Visa Europe says... More
Brits spend £2.5bn with contactless in first half of 2015
More than £2.5bn (US$3.8bn) was spent using contactless cards in the UK in the first half of 2015 compared to £2.32bn (US$3.55bn) for the whole of 2014, research from The UK Cards Association reveals as the UK contactless limit is raised from £20 (US$30) to £30 (US$46)... More
UK contactless limit increases to £30
The contactless spending limit of £20 (US$30) has risen to £30 (US$46) across the UK today... More
Half of Brits expect to replace cash with new technologies
More than a quarter of UK consumers (27%) think they will be making payments using wearable devices including watches and wristbands within 10 years, 22% think they will be regularly using their fingerprint to make those payments and 7% think they will use a microchip embedded in their body, research from Lloyds Bank reveals... More
UK contactless spending up 150% in last 12 months
The amount that UK consumers are spending using contactless has risen 150% in the last 12 months, with the number of transactions up 134%, research from Barclaycard has revealed. ... More
PayPal One Touch expansion
PayPal has extended its One Touch mobile payments solution to 13 new markets: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey... More
UK consumers increase contactless spending 560% in 12 months
The amount British consumers have spent using their contactless cards has increased 560% in the last 12 months, research from MasterCard has revealed — a more than sixfold year-on-year growth and up from a 373% increase in the year to July 2014... More