New: Overseas briefs: Strong Apple Pay take-up in the US, RBS to shed 30,000 jobs

A survey showed almost half of all iPhone 6 users in the United States had tried Apple Pay and three-quarters of them had gone on to use the payment system to make repeat purchases, FinExtra reports. The survey by Auriemma Consulting also reported a 98 per cent satisfaction rate with the service. Forty-seven per cent of those who had not tried Apple Pay said they intended to do so within the next six months.
British bank RBS will cut 30,000 jobs as part of its latest restructure, according to a report in The Australian. The bank's chef executive, Ross McEwan, said RBS would be predominantly a domestic lender with a small presence in investment banking. Withdrawal from overseas markets will account for most of the job losses, including 18,000 in the US. The bank has reported losses for the past seven years