We do aim to support ApplePay next year as part of the current account product.
But our immediate priority is getting to the point where we can exit mobilisation and launch the full current account in early 2017. This requires account numbers & sort codes, a MasterCard processor implementation, Faster Payments, Direct Debits and overdrafts.
I wrote more about this here:
Once these are in place, we’ll be working on ApplePay.
It doesn’t make sense to add ApplePay to our prepaid product now because it requires about 6 months of work with our prepaid card processor and prepaid card issuer. This ApplePay implementation work would not be useful once we’re a bank; we’d end up having to do the work again.