CONTACTLESS PAYMENTS TO REPRESENT 1 IN 3 IN-STORE TRANSACTIONS GLOBALLY BY 2020 Representing $2 trillion in value, accounting for 15% of total POS transaction value. Hampshire, UK – 30th July 2018: New data from leading fintech analysts, Juniper Research, estimates that driven by payment...
Credit-Card Backlash Mounts as Kroger Weighs Expanding Visa Ban Kroger Co. is considering expanding a ban on Visa Inc. credit cards imposed by one of its subsidiaries, in the latest signal that retailers are preparing a fresh battle over the $90 billion they pay in swipe fees every year...
‘Walk rather than a run to cashlessness’ in Australia, says payments boss Large-scale technology shifts like the introduction of the Reserve Bank’s New Payments Platform and the rise of tap-and-go are hastening the retreat of cash as a transaction mechanism. But...
Buskers trial tap-and-go, smartphone payments to combat increasingly cashless society The days of buskers laying out an empty guitar case or a battered hat in the hope of attracting some spare change could be numbered. A trial of tap-and-go payment systems is being rolled out by 15 street...
Zuckerberg has big plans for Facebook and WhatsApp in India WhatsApp’s payments test run in India has gone down so well that Facebook can’t wait to launch the service nationwide. In February this year, the instant messaging app launched a beta version of its payments feature for nearly a...
