“Apple is requiring card-issuing banks to allow at least 95 percent of MasterCard or Visa cards in their portfolio to participate in Apple Pay, Sakhrani’s report reads.”
So if we assume that Monzo prepaid is separate enough from the Current Account that it wouldn’t justify rolling out Apple Pay to both prepaid and the CA customers, especially as one has long been deprecated and is soon to close entirely, then surely the reason theres no Apple pay right now is simple: More than 5% of Monzo customers are on prepaid, meaning if they rolled it out to the current account right now they would be breaching the terms of their commercial agreement straight off the bat.
So, erm… Apple Pay on April 4th/5th then?? 