2016, was a year of mobile payment launches including CVS, Kohl’s, Walmart, Citi Pay, Chase Pay, Visa and MasterCard. Worldwide mobile payments are expected to total $780 billion by 2020, according to Taiwan research firm TrendForce. ...
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We highlight the payments trends on the horizon for 2017. MasterCard is making fingerprint and selfie payments available in Latin America. In Japan, NEC is testing payments by facial recognition, surely an idea whose time has come? ...
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The challenges will start with the new Trump administration in the US and Brexit in the UK and continue into the EU where dissension and disruption are a certainty in the new year. Add in worldwide political tension, nervous financial markets and the impact of technology and you have a recipe for the perfect storm. ...
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The employee training part of fraud management cannot be underestimated as this report from TV station KRQE shows. Data from EMVCo shows 394 million EMV chip cards already in circulation in the US. That's 26% of the market but only 7% of transactions are EMV purchases as the US lags in utilization. ...
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We've got the latest news in international payments and trends from the payments industry around the world. ...
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Disruptors are using artificial intelligence, virtual reality, chatbots, apps and smart solutions to make financial services more appealing to consumers. Today, we're looking at who's using chatbots and where the technology is going tomorrow. ...
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Among his many 2017 cyberthreat predictions, lawyer and business professor Steve Weisman says watch out for more mobile payment fraud, ransomware, ATM and gas pump fraud, "spear phishing", bank cyberattacks and state-sponsored cyberattacks. ...
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Our look at disruptive payment technologies includes Barclaycard's Pay@Pump which lets drinkers order pints on a touchscreen and pay for their favorite brew with a tap or an NFC-enabled device swipe. Now that's a technology whose time has come. ...
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Will consumers pay by bitcoin, blockchain technology, NFC, mobile app, IoT or some other new payment technology in the future? We’ve got a quick update on payments trends and predictions including mobile, contactless NFC, bitcoin, blockchain and other new payment technologies. Debra Walton, CCO with Thomson Reuters predicts small ...
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Our payments industry research roundup provides a useful update on the latest payments research in key markets around the globe. The North America Consumer Digital Payments Survey from Accenture shows digital payments have revitalized the payments space but consumers are still slow to move away from paper ...
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