DaveWhitfield published Contactless card payments overtake cheques for the first time

​People are now more likely to pay by contactless card than with a cheque, new figures show.Less than a third of Britons (31%) have used cheques in the past three months, down from 40% who used them to make a payment in 2015, analysts Mintel said.Cheques are now the least likely method British shoppers choose to pay with, behind contactless debit cards and contactless credit cards.Just 28% of consumers used a contactless debit card to make a payment last year, but this has grown to...