Is transport boosting payment? Contactless EMV in London public transport is setting the tone. In a Barclaycard report from 2013, Transport for London (TfL) was ranked among the seven best contactless retailers in the UK, at a time when TfL’s EMV acceptance was only deployed on London buses. Today, its users now account for an impressive average of 450k taps a day, surely making TFL the leading contactless retailer in the world in terms of the volume of EMV contactless transactions generated daily. EMV acceptance in the TfL network began when London’s fleet of 8,500 red buses started accepting contactless cards in December 2012. This was the first phase of TfL’s Future Ticketing Programme. The launch was perfectly timed as it also benefited from a communication campaign f

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