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Is this physical cards at the PoS? Or does this include payments made from mobile wallets?

this is a joke right?  Of course the current US govt isn't using Nationalism in any way, now is it?

Great- can I configure mine with the sound of a Rottweiler?

£30m? That's spare change for Tesco.  Had it occurred post-GDPR it may have been a few quid more.

today's BBC Radio5 Live WakeuptoMoney includes an interesting interview with the LINK's CEO Joh Howells.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b7dqwl

I see a trend here with the Banks.  Are these legacy providers struggling with too much legacy infrastructure?  With a variety of IT intrastrcture that's integrated and functioning, most of the time, but perhaps not all of it?

Invisible payments, an interesting term to encapsulate a frictionless experience of payment, relies on the consumer's trust of the organisation with which they are sharing their card details.  The experience at restaurant Babusa is similar to the one you describe at Prezzo, while allowing the bill/receipt/payments all through their own App.  All very seamless while the customer maintains control.

How comfortable are customers with merchants "remembering" their card details? I do that if I have no choice, but I'm fairly choosy how far and wide that card number goes. Given the rising number of data breaches taking place across the world, there may well be a greater role for Virtual card numbers (or tokens) to help improve the level of the bank experience.  Challenging fraudulent transactions on a bank-issued static card account remains a painful and time-consuming experience.

A Welcome convenience. Personally I can't stand having to wait to pay for goods. I don't have to wait online to pay, so this makes it the same offline and is a positive step forward from the CO-OP.

I can see the attraction of this in markets where PINs are undesirable, lost or often forgotten; it removes the need for PIN mailers, but what's the cost in registering each customer's fingerprint?  OmniPayments has clients who use only a fingerprint at the card terminal to authenticate, with no card being necessary.  @MattScott is right in that the rapid advance in the digital/mobile space may restrict its ability to take off.

"Despite Brexit" or "Despite the Mayor"?