The uprising of mobile payments
If you’re in a store to buy coffee or a book and you have the possibility to pay with cash, credit card or with your mobile phone, how would you make the transaction? Almost everyone has a smartphone...
View ArticleEase of Payment for Users, Complexity for Retailers
In the past, a loaf of bread bought at a bakery would be paid for in cash physically collected from a bank. Those days are long gone. The internet now offers all consumers a wide variety of purchasing...
View ArticleMillennials are the driving force behind mobile payments
The number of cashless payments increased by 52 percent between 2011 and 2015, with a total of 471 billion cashless payments worldwide in 2015. While the use of cash is decreasing, there is a momentum...
View ArticleInteresting times in the world of payments
In all fifteen years that I have worked in the world of payments, I have never seen a more interesting period than the past few years. Just think about it: in the past, banks led major developments in...
View ArticleSIBOS day 2 – What Europeans can learn from Australia’s Instant Payments...
Most payment experts believe that Instant Payments (IP) will become the primary payment method in the future. This is one of the conclusions of the Really a real-time reality session on day 2 of Sibos....
View ArticleMobile Proximity Payment is an inevitable evolution
Mobile payment is an international phenomenon. A revolution that continues to make a breakthrough even among Italians and that sees in the so-called Mobile Proximity Payment the real driving force. Big...
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