More Banks Beginning to Roll out Apple Pay Service in UK

September 14, 2024 by
More Banks Beginning to Roll out Apple Pay Service in UK

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Several additional banks within the UK, allowing customers the total mobile payments experience, are now offering the services provided by Apple Pay.

The customers of Halifax, Lloyds Bank, and Bank of Scotland we now be able to utilize Apple Pay.

These banks together comprise the entirety of Lloyds Banking Group, which is considered Britain’s largest current account provider. Based on research conducted, one in three customers will be expecting to use some form of mobile device to make purchases on a daily basis in the next five years or so.

The platform is capable of hosting iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and Apple Watch for accepting contactless payments. In addition, it allows iPhone and iPad users to make in-app payments.

This announcement indicates how the majority of UK banks are offering the use of Apple Pay to their customers.

As of right now, TSB has not made available the service, listing Apple as ‘coming soon’—with plans to make the service available later this year.

Still caught somewhere in no man’s land is one of the UK’s most prominent financial institutions, Barclays. Currently Barclays operates via its own mobile payment system. However, the company claims it does have plans for enabling the service ‘in the near future.’

Either way, UK is full steam ahead in adopting Apple Pay, as they should be.

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