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Contactless soaring in popularity

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Contactless now makes up one in five of all face to face card payments under £30, figures show after a five fold increase in their use by shoppers.

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So tap and pay is a tenth of a card transactions and a fifth of all low-value transactions. Having been working on contactless payment projects of one form or another for yonks, I’m so happy to see us at the point where merchants now have to have signs to tell consumers that they can’t tap rather than that they can.

[billy bishop POS]

But there’s a better way to pay that is already growing, and that is in-app.

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