Android Pay still hasn’t reached the UK, but Barclays is trying to fill the contactless gap

UK-based bank Barclays has released an update for its Android Barclaycard app today that allows customers to make NFC payments using a handset. The move is a stopgap measure that helps people with an account start making contactless payments at retailers throughout the country, anywhere you’d normally use a Barclaycard, provided there’s an NFC reader in-store. While it’s only Barclays account holders who can use the service, the bank also has a number of other ways non-customers can start making contactless payments without a phone. Primarily, this involves using the BPay payment service combined with either a special key fob, wristband…

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