Mobile giant Everything Everywhere has signed a five-year partnership agreement with Mastercard, to deliver mobile payment services.

The partnership will include the delivery of Near Field Communications (NFC) payment accessibility to customers.

Marion King, President of MasterCard UK, said: “As the use of cash continues to decline, we will be able to provide Everything Everywhere’s 27 million customers with an attractive range of new payment services backed by the processing power and security of MasterCard”.