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Article: LARGE UK MERCHANTS ARE THE LATEST CONTACTLESS TARGET.(News)
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- Cardline
- Article date:
- November 6, 2009
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MasterCard Worldwide has started to focus on convincing larger merchants, including fast-food chains and pharmacies, to accept contactless cards in the United Kingdom, Catherine Murchie, the card network's head of PayPass product management for Europe, tells CardLine sister publication Cards&Payments. PayPass is MasterCard's contactless payment application found on 61 million cards globally, she says. "We are focusing on bringing in Tier 1 merchants" such as McDonald's Corp., bookseller Borders Group and The Boots Co., a pharmacy chain that in May said it would test contactless payments in 15 stores in London and six in Liverpool. Boots, in fact, claims to be among the ...