Apple Pay for Europe will be announced at WWDC 2015

Apple Pay for Europe will be announced at WWDC 2015 during tomorrow, June 8, the Apple company is preparing to bring its mobile payment system to Europeans. Great Britain is the first country in Europe where the Apple company will bring Apple Pay to users, but it seems that the launch will not take place immediately, but only approximately two months away from the announcement made by Apple in the USA.

A senior vice president of MasterCard stated that his company is 100% ready to offer support for MasterCard right now in Europe or other countries around the world, Lloyds bank also being ready for such a launch. Moreover, some large retailers in Great Britain are already ready to start training programs for employees in order to launch the new service, so its expansion in Europe seems certain.

Apple is poised to reveal that it is planning to launch Apple Pay, its contactless mobile payments service, in Britain this summer. The Silicon Valley giant is expected to make the announcement on Monday in San Francisco at its annual jamboree for software developers, industry sources say. The service will be switched on in around two months, they said.

Last year there were the first rumors regarding the launch of Apple Pay in Europe in the first part of 2015 and it seems that they will be partially true, Apple will announce the support in June, while the launch will take place in August. During this period, Apple will finalize agreements with banks and retailers to allow the British to make mobile payments at any time.

Separated from Great Britain, iOS 9 it contains support for Apple Pay in Canada, so that from the fall we will have a new expansion of the service in at least one country around the world, if we are not talking about multiple countries, including Europe.

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