Mobile payments could nearly eliminate the need for plastic cards

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Accenture Payment Services managing director Matthew Friend predicts that cards will go the way of the eight-track. The managing director of Accenture Payment Services, Matthew Friend, has published an article in Forbes that has predicted that the adoption of mobile payments could eventually make the use of ATM and credit cards nearly obsolete. If it were up to many retailers, credit card companies, and other financial institutions, smartphones would be the new plastic. There are many major players that are currently vying for dominance in the mobile payments market, ranging…

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