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February 19, 2021

Exclusive: Barclays pulls plug on flagship payments app Pingit

The UK bank has called time on Pingit, one of its early payment innovations.


Isabel Woodford

4 min read

A decade since it launched, Barclays is retiring Pingit, its mobile payments app, sources close to the UK bank have told Sifted.

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