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The middle of June is a time when a large amount of people eagerly starts looking past the high temperatures and holidays of summer towards September and the promise of new Apple updates and products. And this June is bound to get payments players salivating. At this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), Tim Cook revealed Apple Pay is finally making its way to the computer. In autumn, US customers will be able to pay for things on their Mac using the company’s payment service, with the phone’s Touch ID acting as the authenticator. So what does it mean for the payments space? In today’s newsletter we take a look.

Elsewhere in the newsletter, in news that will not be at all surprising, contactless spending went mainstream in 2015 with £7.75 billion being spent using contactless cards, compared to £2.32 billion in 2014, according to new research from the UK Cards Association (UKCA).

What’s more, we’ve picked out the top stories across Europe’s fintech and payments industry so you don’t have to. We’re nice like that.

Enjoy!

This autumn, Apple customers will be able to make payments using Apple Pay on Safari browser on a Mac computer, said Tim Cook at the company’s latest Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. The company also revealed the service will be launched in new countries over next few weeks.

They don’t say Europe is one of the most interesting markets for fintech and payments right now for nothing. But with so much going on it can be tough to stay on top of what’s happening in the different hubs across the region.

In news that will not be at all surprising, contactless spending went mainstream in 2015 with £7.75 billion being spent using contactless cards, compared to £2.32 billion in 2014, according to new research from the UK Cards Association (UKCA).

After being unable to reach an agreement regarding merchant fees, Walmart Canada will stop accepting ALL Visa credit cards on July 18th.