From Thursday, the digital wallet system, which lets users store a credit card on their handset and then touch said phone to a terminal to make a payment, will be accepted in 1 million locations within the US. "We are thrilled to work with Google to deliver a safe and secure payment experience for our cardholders through Android Pay," said Ed McLaughlin, Chief Emerging Payments Officer of MasterCard, which has been helping the search engine set up and launch the payments systmem. Apple Pay has been live in the US since October 2014 and also went live in the UK in July.



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