UK Banks Turn to Other Forms of Digital Payments
In an effort to edge out the growing competition from Apple Pay, big banks in the United Kingdom are starting to look into other forms of digital payments. While London is considered one of the largest global bitcoin hubs, it's still unclear whether the cryptocurrency could be included in their list of alternatives. Earlier this week, Barclays signed a deal with Zapp, which is a digital payments service that allows customers to make online transactions through the "pay by bank" application on mobile devices. Apart from that, Barclays is also making use of own payments application Pingit,....
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