Slow start for payment cards

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Large retailers cautious over contactless cards but banks predict rapid take-up during 2008

Barclaycard will launch a contactless card combined with Oyster One of the UK’s largest banks says the initial rollout of contactless payment cards may fail to attract the predicted number of ret...

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