Apple Pay Now Supported by Halifax, Lloyds, and Bank of Scotland in the UK [Updated]

Just gave it a try in Mcdonalds. Cashier person asked me if I wanted to pay by card, pulled out phone "Gonna give this a try!". When it worked I squeaked. We laughed. I drunk the milkshake. I died a little.

Slowly moving from Barclays to Nationwide. Moving all of my money to them. Barclays has disappointed me with not supporting Apple Pay. The only major bank. Disgrace.

I enjoy Apple Pay so much

Where in the UK do you live? all Tescos in central London accept Apple Pay.

London is essentially a different country :P

None of the Tesco stores in Edinburgh and Glasgow accept contactless.

London is essentially a different country :p

None of the Tesco stores in Edinburgh and Glasgow accept contactless.

Ah. First Direct looks good. Although says there's a £10 monthly charge to hold an account with them? I never understood banks charging for use of a bank account, why should I pay them to store my money? It's not a lot though and the £125 switch reward is quite enticing.

Or in the North East of England.

I asked our express store when they'll get contactless as its on a business park of 10,000 people. She said maybe this year but probably early next year.

Considering 80% of their custom is lunch time £3 meal deals, it's annoying they're taking so long.

I use the self checkout most of the time. The software has been updated - you can see the contactless option on the select payment page - but it's greyed out, obviously because the hardware isn't there. Tesco has many thousands of tills, it would cost quite a lot to upgrade them all, so I wouldn't hold your breath. M&S already did, but then they don't charge just prices, they charge M&S prices, so they can afford it.

I just managed to register two MasterCard cards issued by Bank of Scotland, and Halifax. Hence maybe just few unfortunate ones? :(

I had to call through to verify my Halifax Clarity Mastercard and the agent said it wouldn't go through the MasterCard portal at the moment, apparently they have to contact Apple to push it through the system :( My Halifax Visa debit card worked fine though.

Ah. First Direct looks good. Although says there's a £10 monthly charge to hold an account with them? I never understood banks charging for use of a bank account, why should I pay them to store my money? It's not a lot though and the £125 switch reward is quite enticing.

Why would you not pay them to store your money? Somebody needs to buy the padlock :D

I think it's more to do with government regulation and them having to hold more money/ring-fence customer money which means they don't see a great margin in the retail banking divisions. I'm guessing they'd rather not have the investment division's profit subsidising retail banking when they could just get the money from customers.

McDonald's has to be winning in the "First :apple:Pay use" category.

Best description ever! If you're up for the challenge, watch what happens at the drive through. They have a machine that reminded me of the guns in The Fifth Element.

In the states, McD's massive drive thru terminal reminds of the guns from The Guns of Navarone!!