Apple Pay was launched in the United Kingdom back in July last year and most major banks in the country started supporting the new service soon after it arrived. There is one bank that has held out for almost a year even though it promised that it would eventually support Apple Pay and that bank is Barclays. It has now confirmed that Apple Pay support might arrive by March this year.
Barclays had initially promised to add support for Apple Pay at some point in 2015 but come October it announced that this won’t happen until early 2016. That meant that people who bank with this establishment had to wait for several more months before they too could use Apple Pay to make payments on the go.
It has never really detailed the reason for delaying this seemingly inevitable task for so long, the delays have only earned it scorn from customers, many of them have even considered changing banks altogether.
An email from Ashok Vaswani, the CEO of Barclays’ Personal and Corporate Banking division, has been made public in which he writes that Barclays is going to launch Apple Pay as committed “within the next 60 to 75 days.” That means we should expect this to happen by March 2016.
Barclays customers will no doubt be keeping their fingers crossed since this won’t be the first time that the bank would delay the inevitable, one can only hope that it doesn’t do that again.
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