With Apple set to launch Apple Pay in the U.K. next week, Barclays continues to distance itself from that system to forge its own path with mobile payments.

Barclays in the latest U.K. bank to support Zapp, a mobile payments system Vocalink first announced almost two years ago. After almost a year of delays, Vocalink plans to launch the system in October.

Multiple media reports indicate Barclays' Pingit mobile funds transfer service will be the first financial institution to support Zapp.

Barclays support for Apple Pay was noticeably absent last month during Apple developers' conference. The bank later revealed it will push its own contactless payments devices, including a wristband that contains a contactless Visa chip.