Danes Ditch Wallets as Starbucks to Drug Dealers Tap Bank Apps
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Danes are leaving their wallets at home as mobile-phone payments are spreading to supermarkets, Starbucks Corp.’s coffee shops and even the illegal hash trade in Copenhagen’s Christiania district.
Almost a third of the population started using Danske Bank A/S’s MobilePay application since May last year and more than 80,000 payments are processed each day. Customers can use the app, which is open to anyone with a Danish credit card, to pay for goods at more than 3,400 shops nationwide.