UK Mobile Payments
4 May 2012
In the last few months the UK mobile payments scene has really come alive. Assuming I have the right combination of phone/ card/ MNO/ etc., as a consumer today I can already sign up to and start using:
- Quick Tap, an NFC payments solution from Barclaycard and Orange
- PayTag, a contactless sticker from Barclays
- PingIt, a mobile P2P service from Barclays (see my earlier blog)
- Simply Tap from Mobile Money Network (see my earlier blog)
- PayPal mobile app
- O2 wallet, launched just last week
- Mobile wallet from Vodafone and Visa partnership announced in February
- V.me wallet from Visa - UK will be one of the first countries to launch in Europe
- Bank account-based P2P services built on the Mobile Payments Platform being developed by the UK Payments Council and VocaLink
- Any services built on top of the infrastructure provided by Project Oscar, a JV from the leading MNOs, provided they get the necessary approvals from the EC (see my earlier blog)
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