Cashless Britain advances as contactless and debit cards thrive

As someone who lived in Norway in the past few years, I have always wondered why the local banks aren't pushing more for standard contactless payment like [1] instead they developed several competing QR code based solutions like Vipps [2], mCASH [3] and MobilePay [4].

Since I recently moved back to China, I noticed that the mobile payment war has mostly settled, Alipay [5] and WeChat Pay [6] split the marketshare while Apple Pay and Samsung Pay tries to increase their influence with partnerships with UnionPay [7], the national banking union of China.

It would be interesting to know the stories from other countries.

[1] https://www.visa.co.uk/products/visa-contactless/ [2] https://www.vipps.no [3] https://mca.sh [4] http://www.mobilepay.no [5] https://intl.alipay.com [6] https://pay.weixin.qq.com/wechatpay [7] http://www.unionpayintl.com