Barclays PLC and Barclaycard have informed about the availability of the Apple Pay service to their UK clients. Apple Pay entered the UK market only in previous year.
Effective April 5, 2016, customers will be able to use Apple Pay for payments at over 400,000 locations across the UK that accept contactless payments. This new payment possibility is available since April 5, 2016 and customers can use their iPhones, Apple Watches and iPads for the payments.
Apple Pay is providing an easy set up, while users can now add their Barclays debit card and Barclaycard credit card to Wallet and continue to receive all of the usual rewards and benefits.
First contactless credit cards were offerred by Barclaycards in the UK in 2007 and Barclays was the first bank to roll-out contactless debit cards to its clients. Since then, contactless payments have gained wide popularity among customers. Spending in this way increased more than three times in 2015, with 140 million contactless transactions made only in December, what is one transaction in every 52 seconds, according to the Barclays statement.
As the CEO of Barclays UK – Ashok Vaswani stated:
“We are passionate about helping customers access services and carry out their day to day transactions in the way that suits them. As part of this, we have developed a range of digital innovations that allow people to choose how, when and where they bank and make payments. Adding to the existing choice, from today both Barclays debit and Barclaycard credit card customers can use Apple Pay to make payments with their Apple device across the UK.”
Amer Sajed – the Interim CEO of Barclaycard, added:
“With Barclaycard and Barclays bringing Apple Pay to our customers, we can now offer the widest choice of ways to make and take payments in a way that’s most convenient for them.”
To read the full statement from Barclays, click here.
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