Barclaycard Wireless Festival 2012 is to be the first music event in the UK to be fully contactless enabled, giving music lovers the ability to enjoy the experience without having to carry cash. All vendors at the festival will accept contactless payments, allowing customers to spend less time queuing and more time listening to music. […]
The Brits tend to be a pretty staid bunch, but with the Olympics and the Queen’s diamond jubilee celebrations set for 2012, they’re gearing themselves up for quite a party – and contactless has been invited! As a G10 nation, it has many of the characteristics of other economies in the grouping. It is the […]
The jingle of charity collection buckets was replaced by the tap of a card as crowds used contactless technology to give donations to the UK’s first ever cashless carol singers. Accepting not cash but contactless card payments only, the singers from the London Community Gospel Choir performed traditional Christmas carols to the public with a […]
Barclaycard Global Commercial Payments are to ensure that all newly issued Barclaycard corporate cards will be enabled to make contactless transactions. This is the first contactless corporate card in the UK and will give businesses of all sizes greater control to track smaller transactions which are currently made using cash. Barclays and Barclaycard have been […]
From yesterday, the world’s busiest arena, The O2, rolled out contactless technology across more than 250 card payment terminals. The introduction of the speedy payment system, in partnership with Barclaycard and Visa Europe, is to enable revelers to benefit from shorter queues at bars, restaurants and merchandise stands within The O2 itself and at other […]
Everything Everywhere and Barclaycard today announced the first contactless mobile phone payment solution for UK consumers will launch by early summer. Barclaycard and Orange claim this will be the biggest revolution in payments since credit cards were introduced in the UK by Barclaycard over 40 years ago. Commenting on the announcement, Gerry McQuade, Chief Development Officer, Everything Everywhere, […]
LONDON. Amongst the many things we admire about the British is their determination when it comes to fundraising. Schools, Universities, families – everybody gets involved in raising money for a good cause. Unforgettable how Princess Beatrice – Fergie’s daughter for those of you who don’t read tabloids – finished the London Marathon in April wearing […]
UK roadside restaurant chain Little Chef’s announcement that it would be deploying contactless payment systems in all 173 restaurants caused quite a stir in our League offices. Stories surfaced of childhood memories, vacations gone bad, roadside celebrations (various), secretive sales rep meetings over “Full English” – Little Chef played a substantial role in all of […]
