Apple Pay reportedly coming to the UK on July 14th

Note, however, that this isn’t an official launch date from Apple, but rather a leak, albeit one from several sources.

Other big name launch partners include TfL, the Post Office, the Trainline, Lidl, M&S, Nando’s, Boots, Costa, McDonald’s, Waitrose, Wagamama, Pret, Spar, BP, JD Sports, Subway, KFC, and Starbucks.

Apple Pay users in London have an added advantage, they will be able to use the payments service on the city’s transport system as well.

What is now lacking in Apple Pay is that the service doesn’t have a feature to facilitate payments transfers between people.

Apple Pay uses the NFC technology in your iPhone 6 and 6 Plus to communicate with a payment terminal. And this is also likely to boost Apple Watch sales.

The company just filed a new patent that will let people send money to one another directly from their iPhone’s Wallet, which has replaced the Passbook app, Patently Apple reports.

While Apple is going about with expansion plans for its Apple Pay service, Alibaba has a target on Apple’s back with a listing of its AliPay service in the USA Alvin Ybanez of Yibada says that Alipay has set its sights on the U.S. market in a bid to establish itself as an industry leader.

Apple’s invention of Apple Pay, according to Patently Apple normally relates to wireless communications, wireless electronic devices, and more precisely to the methods for leading financial transactions by communicating encoded financial credentials between the wireless electronic devices.

The launch in the United Kingdom will see support from 14 banks, including NatWest, Santander, HSBC, Nationwide, and American Express.