Starling Discussion & Feedback

[garete (Gareth)]

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Apple Pay - Any updates?

Sorry you feel we haven’t been very open It’s more of a case that we’re not sure and don’t want to make false promises. My understanding is that we can support Apple Pay, even on a prepaid card but that requires extra work on behalf of some of our third party suppliers (specific to our prepaid programme) that costs a lot of both time and money and is uncertain as to how long it will actually take (hence the vagueness). I’ll see if I can get something more concrete for you guys this we…

Apple Pay - Any updates?

OK, I’ve just checked – the short answer is still “we don’t know”. Long answer (caveat, caveat, caveat): The integration on the end of one of our suppliers will take 3-4 months (or more) once it’s started. We haven’t started that process yet because of ongoing discussions/negotiations – I can’t share details of that though, sorry! We hope we might be able to make a decision on whether to go ahead with the integration sometime over the next month and as soon as we have a clearer idea, I will sha…