Update on UK Rollout >>

American Express is committed to Contactless in the UK and is preparing its network to enable contactless transactions.  The issuing of contactless-enabled cards is planned to begin in 2011.

Barclays and Barclaycard are the leading issuer of contactless credit and debit cards, with over 11 million in the market, which represents 85% of all contactless cards in the UK. Between January and December 2010, our monthly usage figures for contactless more than doubled, thanks to ever greater customer awareness and a growing number of outlets accepting contactless. 2011 is an important year for us, as thanks to our partnership with Everything Everywhere, it will be the year contactless mobile payments become a reality for our customers. Our commercial contactless mobile phone payment solution, a UK first, will launch in the UK in the second quarter of 2011.

Capital One is keen to launch a contactless card at some point in the near future and is in the process of assessing the business case and technological impacts of doing so.

Citi have already issued Contactless cards; and are engaged with the industry on developments in the Contactless environment.

The Co-operative Bank sees contactless as a key service, providing speed, convenience and benefits to all participants in the payments environment. The Co-operative Bank is investigating potential opportunities for Contactless and has recently commenced a staff pilot. The aim is to commence issuing Contactless cards to customers from Q4 2011.

HSBC Bank Plc is currently reviewing the market for opportunities in the Contactless arena. Our customers will continue to be able to apply for HSBC Bank and HSBC Premier Credit Cards, if they call in.

We remain committed to the current contactless initiatives and following the successful issuance of 650k Halifax and BOS branded contactless cards in 2009, we are currently progressing plans for further issuance on the LTSB brand in 2011.

Nationwide is interested in issuing contactless cards and is currently reviewing its product proposition and the internal requirements to issue contactless cards.

RBSG continues its commitment to Contactless technology with a small pilot continuing to run. We continue to undertake customer research and drive learnings from the pilot group and it is intended that Contactless capability will be provided as standard functionality to many of our customers in future.

We are always seeking to provide quicker, easier services for our customers and, as a business, MBNA remains committed to the successful rollout of contactless technology. The aim is to start having contactless enabled cards across all of our brands by the end of the year.