CONTACTLESS DEBIT CARD USE 2022
A slide showing the growth rate of contactless debit cards in 2022 in the UK, Brazil, US, and UAE.
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LOCALIZED PAYMENTS: THE KEY TO SCALING GLOBALLY
A brief report authored by Sharon Haines, and published by a VISA company, about the importance to scale globally of accepting alternative and other localized payments.
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PROJECT NEXUS: ENABLING INSTANT CROSSBORDER PAYMENTS (BAI)
A BAI report on a joint project between Singapore, Malaysia and Europe to facilitate instant cross-border payments.
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EU DIGITAL IDENTITY WALLET PILOTS PULL IN BIG NAMES BUT QUESTIONS EMERGE (CONSORTIUM IDENTITY MANAGEMENT)
In this article Visa, Idemia and Thales announce EU digital wallet consortium membership.
DRIVEN BY PURPOSE: FIFTEEN YEARS OF MPESA EVOLUTION
A link to a McKinsey report describing the evolution of Kenya’s M-Pesa’s mobile wallet, among the world’s first mobile money solutions, and its important role in promoting financial inclusion. Subsequently, lessons from M-Pesa were applied globally.
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WHAT IS OPEN BANKING?
In this short video from Nordigen, a provider of apis that power open banking, iPSD2 regulations, that require all banks to provide an API to give users access to their banking so that data. Developers can build third party apps using the bank APIs to create a seamless connection to a customer’s banking data.
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A WORLD TOUR OF DIGITAL CURRENCY PROJECTS
This article looks at central bank efforts in Asia, Europe, and North America to support digital wallets and payments, through digital currencies.
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EU WANTS BANKS TO ADOPT DIGITAL WALLETS, BUT IT’S A TOUGH SELL
This article covers the EU’s attempts to encourage the adoption of digital or mobile wallets throughout the European Union, and the inhibitors to their adooption.
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OPINION: WHY FACEBOOK’S NEW CRYPTOCURRENCY IS A THREAT TO MPESA AND SAFARICOM
A short opinion piece arguing that Facebook’s now defunct cryptocurrency, designed for P2P payments would be a threat to both mPesa and Safaricom.
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WITH BREXIT DAYS AWAY GOOGLE OFFICIALLY MOVED ONLINE PAYMENT PROCESSING TO IRELAND
Short article describing Google’s movement of online payments processing for European Economic Area’s users (with the exception of the UK) to Ireland.
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