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Update on UK Rollout >>
This page has been designed to enable retailers to get an understanding of the status of rollout in the UK.
To date, the following organisations have issued Contactless cards:
- Barclays (Barclays Bank and Barclaycard)
- Citigroup (Egg)
- HSBC
- Lloyds Banking Group (Halifax)
- MBNA
- Newcastle Building Society
- The Royal Bank of Scotland Group (NatWest and RBS)
Industry Statements
Shown below, a number of organisations have chosen to provide a specific statement describing their achievements, plans and aspirations for contactless rollout in the UK.
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Citigroup / Egg 25/02/10 Citi have already issued Contactless cards; and are engaged with the industry on developments in the Contactless environment. |
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Co-operative Bank 25/02/10 The Co-operative Bank sees Contactless as a key service, providing speed and convenience and benefits to all participants in the payments environment.
The Co-operative Bank is investigating potential opportunities for Contactless with a view to a trial issuance of cards in Q4 2010. |
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HSBC 19/02/10 HSBC is currently reviewing the market for opportunities in the Contactless arena and our customers will continue to be able to apply for cards if they call in. |
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MBNA 09/02/10 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. |
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Lloyds Banking Group 08/02/10 We remain committed to the current contactless initiatives and have successfully issued 650k Halifax and BOS branded contactless cards in 2009 and are currently formulating our plans for further issuance on the LTSB brand. |
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Nationwide Building Society 08/02/10 Nationwide is interested in issuing contactless cards and is currently reviewing its product proposition and the internal requirements to issue contactless cards. |
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Capital One 18/09/09 Capital One believes that the rollout of a successful Contactless programme will bring long-term benefits to issuers, merchants and customers. Capital One has commenced a project to evaluate how we can successfully issue Contactless enabled cards with a view to potentially rolling out in 2010. |
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American Express 01/05/09 American Express believes that contactless payments will have broad benefits for merchants, issuers and their customers. American Express is actively exploring contactless opportunities and is finalizing plans for a UK roll-out of contactless enabled cards. |
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Barclays 14/04/09 Barclaycard and Barclays are fully committed to the roll out of contactless technology. Since November 2008 all newly issued platinum Credit cards include contactless as standard. Further, since March 2009, Barclays Debit commenced issuance of Contactless Cards. We now have issued over 2 million Contactless Cards and we anticipate over 5 million cards in issuance across the Barclays Group by the end of 2009. |
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The Royal Bank of Scotland Group 04/02/09 RBS has invested significant monies in preparing its card acquiring and issuing platforms for the national rollout of Contactless payment cards. We continue to invest in our systems and products to handle the anticipated significant increase in transaction volumes resulting from the Contactless rollout. Whilst we are not prepared to discuss the detail of our issuing plans at this time, it is intended that Contactless capability will be provided as standard functionality on debit cards and some credit cards for many of our customers. |
