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Title: Bank pay app
Post by: Clive on April 13, 2023, 14:47

Anyone heard of this?  My credit card provider is touting this new method of payment as it is much quicker and simpler.

Title: Re: Bank pay app
Post by: Simon on April 13, 2023, 20:24

Is it this?

https://www.mastercard.co.uk/en-gb/personal/ways-to-pay/pay-by-bank-app.html

I still carry cards as I haven't got around to trusting payments by my phone yet.  I can swipe or scan a card much quicker in a restaurant than it seems to take people fiddling about with their phones.

Title: Re: Bank pay app
Post by: Clive on April 14, 2023, 17:12

It seems a bit like Apple Pay but I’ll pop into my branch when I get home.  It might be my last visit before it closes in September.  We will then have just one bank left in the town- a Welsh one called Principality.  During the past few years Barclays, HSBC, NatWest, and Lloyds have gone!

Title: Re: Bank pay app
Post by: Simon on April 14, 2023, 18:35

We're quite lucky here, in that we still have branches of all of the 'Big Four' banks, plus Halifax, Nationwide and a couple of other building societies.

I say 'lucky' - I've not been into my bank for years...

Title: Re: Bank pay app
Post by: Clive on April 15, 2023, 14:24

Make no mistake, they are coming for you!

Title: Re: Bank pay app
Post by: Simon on April 15, 2023, 14:34

;D

We seems to be able to keep hold of things here.  We still have a fully functioning M&S store, where others have closed. 

Title: Re: Bank pay app
Post by: Clive on April 15, 2023, 15:50

Brighton is far bigger and more exciting than Porthcawl so I’m confident you will hang onto most of your banks in the short term.