Customers of Santander, NatWest, Royal Bank of Scotland and Ulster Bank to join Android Pay, a newest way of Smartphone Banking revolution. While TSB will be added "very soon" at some point this month. Android Pay will add new measurement of Online Banking for major banks.
This leaves Barclays as the last major bank not to take on the resident NFC payment options from the major operating systems. The company resisted Apple Pay too, continuing to promote its own Bpay service that works with dongles and wrist bands as well as phones.
Other payment systems, including Samsung Pay, are rolling out, but Android and Apple dominate.
It's not clear why TSB, which was announced along with Santander earlier in the month, isn't launching with the rest, but it may have something to do with the more complex security features in Android Pay.
Android Pay launched in the UK in May and includes 'Android Pay Days', promotions once a month offering discounts with different partners each arbitrary 'pay day'.
Contactless payments are already huge business in the UK despite several major retailers, notably Sainsbury's, having yet to support the system even in new build stores.
Transport for London was among the first to accept contactless payments alongside the bespoke Oyster system, and over three million people now regularly use one form of contactless payment to travel, be it phone or debit card.
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