Dear Subscriber,

In this week’s newsletter, we look at how the Royal British Legion trialed contactless payments with its poppy donation tins for Remembrance Day, in partnership with NatWest, WorldPay and Thyngs.

And in the wake of ‘Singles Day’ in China, Alibaba has broken payments records again to hit $18 billion in total sales.

Enjoy!

NatWest, Worldpay and Thyngs have partnered with the Royal British Legion to introduce contactless and mobile donations to Poppy Appeal.

The e-commerce giant, Alibaba, has said its sales for this year’s Singles Day, an event held every year on 11/11, hit $18 billion, an increase of 32% on last year’s total of $14.3 billion.

Millennials aren’t chomping at the bit to adopt the newest payment methods just yet, new research suggests. Instead they are biding their time, using traditional payments while waiting for advancements in the market.

Alipay has partnered with the Printemps group, with its Printemps Haussmann store becoming the first department store to accept the Chinese company’s mobile payments app.