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Nearly 2.1 billion consumers worldwide will use a mobile wallet to make a payment or send money in 2019, up nearly 30 percent from 1.6 billion recorded at the end of 2017, according to a new study. The Juniper study claims that while contactless card payments were far more prevalent than NFC mobile payments in many [...]

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Earlier this year, Google pushed out a redesign to its mobile wallet and changed the name from Android Pay to Google Pay. Now, Google Pay has passed 100 million installs from the Play Store. Google Pay is currently available for free download from the Play Store, which makes it available for almost anyone that wants to try [...]

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Singtel has announced it will connect its Singapore mobile payments service with commercial offerings from associates and partners across Asia, in a bid to create a pan-Asian network of mobile wallet services. After linking partner operators to its Open Platform, the company said consumers from across the region would be able to use their existing [...]

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One quarter (26 percent) of British shoppers expect to start using contactless payments with a smartwatch, bracelet, keyring or other forms of wearable payments, according to new figures from Mastercard. In the UK, contactless spend on Mastercard grew by 139 percent in the last year, and the huge success of contactless has seen many Brits [...]

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Apple Pay has an estimated 127 million active global users, an increase of more than double the 62 million who used it this time last year, a new report claims. While Apple has not given exact figures for its mobile payments service, the figures are based on conclusions drawn by analysts at Loup Ventures, based [...]

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