Banks report a big increase in contactless transactions

Dawinderpal Sahota
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Monthly contactless payments increase by over 200 per cent since January

More than a million contactless transactions have now been made in the UK in 2010 Contactless payments are finally begin to catch on, according to Barclays, which announced yesterday that the tot...

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