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Barclays Anticipating 'Imminent' Support for Apple Pay in United Kingdom
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Or is it a note to follow so? (Tea, I drink with jam and bread....)
A French article?
I don't normally comment unless I have to, but First Direct are a fantastic bank. Like others have said, their customer service is brilliant. You won't be disappointed.
As for their mobile apps, yes the Mobile FD App doesn't support Touch ID yet, but during the recent in app hints - it's keep stating get ready for features or something like that. I suspect it won't be long as they are one of the launch partners for Apple Pay.
Seriously, First Direct is a great bank - and that's saying something when it comes to banks.
If (and like others say I doubt you'll want to) you do leave FD I think you get another £100 .. they're that sure you'll stay!
It's worth remembering that the time you've been with your bank has a positive effect on your credit rating, so switching can have an impact if you've been with your bank more than a few years, as can switching banks on a regular basis which can be seen as a bad indicator. AFAIK it's not a massive impact, but it's something to be aware of especially if you're maybe just about to apply for a large loan/mortgage.
I totally agree with you that this seems misplaced in this day and age, but I queried it with one of the credit agencies when we noticed an advisory comment on my wife's credit report about 3 years ago. She'd recently changed banks and whilst it hadn't made any difference to her actual rating, the notes on the report commented that it could make a difference. I guess it's not as much a matter of changing bank after 20 years being negative, it's more that being with your bank for more than 20 years is seen as a positive.
Plus, I think even current credit applications still ask how long you've been with your current bank.
Rubbish. Unless your are doing excessive repetitive switching, it will have no impact at all.
The indicators they primarily look for are your history of how you run your accounts, such as.. If you are overdrawn, you stick to your approved overdraft limit or not, your balance history, any defaults, etc.
Only a tiny part of your credit history has anything to do with how long you have had your bank account. Besides, they can see all your previous bank history - how long you may have been with your previous bank 10, 20 years etc and how you ran that account.
It's so 'normal' and expected for people to switch bank accounts, and utility suppliers these days.
Research shows that most people in fact don't switch - that's how the banks like it.
Some people are quite happy to stay with their bank for 30 years, and spend 25 of those years complaining how bad they are - but never leave. Banks dream!!
I'm looking forward to this but I just can't see it being that big over here, barely any shops I go to even have contactless pay setup..
But FD's online banking looks positively archaic compared with the Barclays version, I use both.
I don't get it, what's so special about it?
I was wondering why they chose to have two letters overlap when there was plenty of space allotted for other glyphs. It was probably done to reduce whitespace and for what @ConnYoungy said in their post.
Wow good news I was about to switch Banks, I see a few have already I’d be interested as a long time Barclays customer how easy or how much better they find it. We use Ping it to send money between us as a family so been holding off switching. Also it seems AP in the UK is limited to £30 like the pin & chip cards! is Apple Pay limited like this in the US? I presumed it had no limit?
I don't see Apple Pay as being a big deal especially when having a limit of only £20, or £30 as I have heard in some reports. I'll still need to carry around my other cards to meet payments in excess of its limitations and where Apple Pay isn't supported. I even carry money around in case I want an ice cream or other incidental.
Eagles have been holding stuff for a long time now. Hitler and Goebbels were late to the "pin the eagle on something" party, and were excused after 13 years.
Nope - RBS Group are supporting Apple Pay from launch.
Having never used Barclays online banking, I can't comment.
However, having been with FD since they day they launched some 20 years ago, I can tell you that no other company I have ever dealt with, comes remotely close to offering the levels of service that FD do.
I find their online banking fine, I log in, I look at balances and pay external bills with ease, so I can't really see how much easier another bank could make it (Note I'm not saying that it can't be done, just that what I want/need to do works just fine).