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09-Jan-18 Mobile payment solutions are being seen as the next big thing by many. However, while tech companies such as PayPal, Square and Venmo have delivered solutions, consumers now expect their bank to provide fully integrated digital payments. [image: Digital Banking Report]
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08-Jan-18 Thanks to a die-hard affection for cash, Japan loses over USD17.6 bn every year as a result of 65% of payments being settled in cash, more than twice the average 32% among other developed economies. [image: BCG]
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08-Jan-18 Sprint has come up with a battery-powered payment card which functions as a debit, credit, prepaid, multi-currency or loyalty card. Partnered banks Emirates NBD, Japan’s Sumitomo, Canada’s CIBC and India’s IndusInd are expected to launch the card in 2018. [image: Dynamics Inc]
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07-Jan-18 The US saw USD112 billion of mobile payments in 2016, while payments in China totaled USD9 trillion. For Alibaba and Tencent the payoff isn’t just the 0.6 percent transaction fee from merchants. It’s also the consumer data collected. [image: Forrester Research / iResearch]
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05-Jan-18 Store owners in Japan may soon be able to accept payments using JCB's new palm scanning payment app. Advances in 'empty-hand payments', requiring neither phone nor wallet, could push Japan forward in the move away from cash. [image: Nikkei Asian Review]
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