Mobile payments growth gap barely there between millennials and older generations

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Visa has been taking aim at Singapore for the creation of a cashless society, with surprising findings. Visa’s effort to turn Singapore into a cashless society has centered heavily around promoting mobile payments growth. The credit card giant recently released its Consumer Payment Attitudes Survey 2016, revealing some unexpected data. It came as little shock that Singaporeans are embracing mobile payment transactions for many purchases. Singapore mobile payments growth has been greatly driven by the willingness of the people to use their smartphones for on demand services as well as…

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Mobile payments will have eliminated cash by 2030, report

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According to the predictions released by IEEE, traditional transactions will fall aside that year. Although it can’t be disputed that mobile payments have been having a struggle in taking off and that it has been taking a great deal of effort to try to convince consumers to adopt this technology for using smartphones instead of cash or credit cards while in brick and mortar stores, a recent prediction is indicating that the time will come for this tech. A new report released by IEEE has looked into several related factors…

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Digital Currency is the Way of the Future

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Digital currency is beginning to become a defining feature of a new era in technological integration. Mobile devices are everywhere, more people are beginning to shop online rather than at physical stores, and physical currency is quickly losing its appeal as a symbol. Years ago, a person could flash a roll of cash and attract envious gazes. Now, however, the color of a credit card and a smartphone can say more about a person’s financial status that a pile of physical money. Mobile commerce is to blame for this trend.…

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Mobile payments tokenization standard sought by credit card giants

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Visa, MasterCard, and American Express have announced their new proposed framework. The three credit card giants, Visa, MasterCard and American Express have unveiled a newly proposed framework for a global standard that would boost digital and mobile payments security, and that would simplify the experience of completing a transaction while shopping over a smartphone, tablet, laptop, or other connected device. The lack of a standard of this nature has been considered a considerable barrier to m-commerce. By developing a global standard, it will make it possible for a whole new…

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