All Barclaycard customers will be contactless by 2011
Barclaycard will issue more than one million contactless cards this year reports www.computing.co.uk
“We are very committed to contactless payments and this is only the start,” Barclaycard head of contactless payments James McDonald told Computing.
OnePulse, the three-in-one card featuring Oyster travelcard, credit and contactless payment, was launched in London last September along with in-store technology OneTouch.
Following the successful introduction of the combined cards, Barclaycard Business began a countrywide rollout of contactless technology. So far, more than 4,000 retail outlets across the UK are able to accept the touch-and-go” system and the company expects to have 20,000 businesses under its network by year-end.
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