Cash App, Venmo app downloads decline
Payments Dive
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Consumer downloads of apps like Cash App and Venmo dropped in the fourth quarter compared to the year-ago period, data from Wolfe Research shows.
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Payments Dive
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Consumer downloads of apps like Cash App and Venmo dropped in the fourth quarter compared to the year-ago period, data from Wolfe Research shows.
NFCW
JANUARY 16, 2024
The Swiss central bank’s researchers based their analysis on anonymized, transaction-level data for a large sample of point-of-sale debit card payments made in Switzerland between 2019 and 2021. “In Switzerland – the country we study – the tap-and-go limit was doubled from CHF40 to CHF80 in April 2020.
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The Fintech Times
JANUARY 22, 2025
In 2024, consumer spending on in-app purchases and subscriptions hit $150billion globally, according to digital economy data provider, Sensor Tower. In its latest research, the firm uncovers how consumer spending on apps has evolved in the past year. Interestingly, consumers are not spending this money in the gaming sector.
Fintech Finance
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
A new study from Juniper Research , the foremost experts in fintech & payment markets, has found the volume of global transactions via A2A (Account-to-Account) payments will rise from 60 billion in 2024 to 186 billion by 2029; an increase of 209%. An extract of Global A2A Payments Market: 2024-2029 , is now available as a free download.
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APRIL 9, 2020
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Fintech Finance
AUGUST 14, 2024
Over half of consumers worldwide (56%) have changed their spending habits from a year ago, not only becoming more price conscious but demanding payment choice, from debit cards and bank transfers to digital wallets and cash, according to new research from Paysafe (NYSE: PSFE), a global payment processor and digital wallet provider.
Fintech Finance
MARCH 19, 2025
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Open Banking Excellence
JULY 8, 2025
This research, conducted at the Oxford University’s Future of Finance and Technology Research Initiative in partnership with Open Banking Excellence (OBE), provides an in-depth analysis of the current status of open banking in the U.S., Regulators need to ensure that it protects both consumers and smaller players.”
Fintech Finance
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Fintech Finance
JUNE 19, 2024
New research released today by emerchantpay , a leading global payment service provider and acquirer, has found that there is strong market potential for merchants who prioritise the adoption of Open Banking payments early in their payment strategies. However, more work needs to be done to educate consumers.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 14, 2020
Consumers’ daily lives look very different now than they did just one year ago. Consumers across the nation have instead hunkered down at home, working, socializing, shopping and paying online. Our research shows that just 20 percent of consumers own eReaders in 2020, for example, down from 23 percent in 2019 and 26 percent in 2018.
Fintech Finance
JULY 23, 2024
UK consumers are leading the charge on digital financial services adoption amid rising demand for more innovation and convenience in payments and banking, according to a study from Marqeta (NASDAQ: MQ), the global modern card issuing platform powering some of today’s most innovative embedded finance solutions.
PYMNTS
MAY 7, 2020
It has been almost two months since the World Health Organization (WHO) first declared the coronavirus a pandemic on March 11, and it has since taken an unprecedented toll on consumers’ wellbeing and livelihoods. Among consumers who are still employed, 31.5 Our research shows that 43.6 We also see 45.8
Fintech Finance
NOVEMBER 28, 2024
Alex Mifsud, CEO and co-founder of Weavr, commented on the report: “Benefits have become an essential tool for employee engagement in the UK and employee expectations have rapidly evolved to match their experience as consumers. To read more about the report, it can be downloaded from Weavr’s website here.
PYMNTS
AUGUST 13, 2020
Amazon ’s reputation rests on providing consumers with almost anything they could want in one place — quickly — and with just a few clicks. It turns out that consumers may be more willing than expected go the extra mile to find their favorite products, though. PYMNTS research shows that 51.7 We found that 58.4
Fintech Finance
AUGUST 28, 2024
However, this increase in digital payments also brings about heightened risks – almost one in five consumers surveyed has fallen prey to online identity theft. More than one-third of consumers believe their data is less secure than it was five years ago, a figure that has increased steadily.
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Consumers’ banking habits have changed radically since the pandemic was first declared in March. PYMNTS research shows that consumers are 8.7 PYMNTS research shows that consumers are 8.7 million consumers in the United States (or 42.4 There are roughly 47.7
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
It has now been six months since the coronavirus outbreak was declared a pandemic on March 11, and consumers are more likely than ever to shop and pay online, not only for retail goods, but for groceries and food orders from restaurants. adults now purchasing food, groceries and retail items online. We surveyed 2,437 U.S.
PYMNTS
MARCH 18, 2020
The United States has reached a tipping point on COVID-19, with federal state and local governments implementing new restrictions on where consumers can travel, how many can gather in any given location and requiring restaurants and bars to shut their doors in the hopes of slowing the spread. percent among high-income consumers.
Payments Dive
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
An independent survey from TNS has found that UK consumers are embracing Pay-at-the-pump facilities at petrol stations and keen to try new value added secure commerce offerings at the pump. Download this infographic to discover the findings of this research.
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Businesses and financial institutions (FIs) are constantly examining ways to make their customers’ accounts more secure, especially as more consumers go online to make purchases and transact during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Developments From The Digital Consumer Onboarding Space. It also found that just 16 percent of U.S.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 14, 2021
This means consumers are turning more to digital tools, but unlocking and embracing the potential benefits of these tools has not been easy. More than half of consumers find it difficult to locate relevant information on their banks’ websites, for example, a problem that led many to seek assistance in physical branches.
PYMNTS
APRIL 1, 2019
When it comes to online shopping, one of the greatest frustrations for consumers — and friction points for merchants — is having to manually enter credit or debit card information for each purchase. percent of consumers today have account information stored online with at least one or more companies or service providers.
PYMNTS
MAY 20, 2019
Consumers use their smartphones to shop for everything, everywhere – including using them to help them shop in-store. What’s more, consumers who use their smartphones while shopping in-store visit them more often than consumers who don’t. percent of consumers who do say they visit brick-and-mortar shops every day or every week.
PYMNTS
JULY 14, 2020
Convincing consumers to designate precious space on their mobile phones to download yet another app can be a tough sell these days. Yet, large shares of consumers would be willing to make room for additional apps that can give them greater control over their spending. Among the former group, 46.3 percent of the latter.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 1, 2020
Not surprisingly, consumers with lower incomes had less money to spend, and accordingly, the report showed that growth of personal spending also slowed for the fourth straight month, rising by just 1 percent in August. PYMNTS research has shown that more than half of U.S. PYMNTS research has shown that more than half of U.S.
PYMNTS
APRIL 22, 2020
All 50 states have since issued social distancing guidelines, with consumers everywhere wondering when the mandates will be lifted, when the economy will reopen and whether it will be possible to resume living their pre-COVID-19 lives. PYMNTS research shows that the employment rate had dropped from 63 percent to 40.9
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 20, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted a significant share of consumers to change the ways they shop, with nearly half now turning to digital channels for day-to-day purchases. Most declines are triggered by banks verifying the legitimacy of transactions or consumers exceeding their credit limits.
PYMNTS
APRIL 6, 2020
Among its many profound impacts, the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically altered how consumers shop. Even before large-scale stay-at-home policies went into effect, most consumers sought to limit direct contact with people and objects as much as possible when they went out. percent reported Walmart Pay usage. percent reported in 2019.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 15, 2020
The average United States consumer believes the pandemic will not come to an end until Sept. Back on March 11, the average consumer expected the pandemic to be over and for their lives to return to normal by July 27, 2020, roughly three months ago. PYMNTS research shows that 41.9 percent of all U.S.
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
More than 100 million consumers in the United States have switched from shopping in stores to shopping online since the pandemic began, and 83 percent of them plan to keep shopping with merchants they have discovered since then, even after the crisis has subsided. The only question is: What do retailers have to do to win them over?
Faster Payments Council
JULY 20, 2020
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PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 9, 2020
Not all that long ago, consumers would head to local business districts or malls without necessarily having set plans about what they might buy or which shops they might enter. The share of all consumers making purchases with digital devices has increased from 27 percent in March to 42 percent. The report focuses on the U.S.
PYMNTS
MAY 16, 2019
From finding a nearby restaurant to finding a date, smartphone location controls are used by consumers for many cases. These mobile controls, however, also offer consumers a powerful tool for dealing with arguably higher stakes: the risk of credit card fraud. The research shows that 52.9 According to the research, 33.8
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 7, 2020
Amid the ongoing pandemic, a growing share of consumers the world over are turning to mobile devices and laptops to do their shopping or to make their trips to brick-and-mortar stores more efficient. Our study examines how consumers’ physical shopping experiences are being augmented — or in some cases entirely replaced — by digital ones.
Tearsheet
JULY 17, 2024
50% of customers analyzed a purchase in the last year, and 24% investigated a payment because they did not recognize it, according to recent research by Mastercard. 80% of consumers believe that easier access to this information would improve their process of investigating an unrecognized transaction, according to the research.
PYMNTS
MAY 22, 2020
These surprising findings could have important implications for the financial institutions (FIs) that issue credit cards and compete to keep their cards at the top of consumers’ wallets. Another notable finding to emerge from our research concerns the means by which cardholders contact their FIs. The overwhelming majority — 80.8
Fintech Finance
JANUARY 29, 2025
With almost three quarters of consumers researched by Ecommpay saying they might abandon an online purchase if their preferred payment method was not available, its critical that we give merchants the ability to optimise their checkout with local APMs, explained Rosanna Helm-Visscher, Global Head of Partnerships, Ecommpay.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 20, 2020
The launch of the Apple Pay mobile wallet has long been seen as Apple’s attempt at replacing consumers’ use of plastic cards for in-store purchases as their primary payment method. To what extent has it succeeded in changing consumers' use of plastic cards at the point of sale (POS) in physical stores? Today, Oct. percent of U.S.
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
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Fintech Finance
AUGUST 6, 2024
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PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 13, 2019
Rampant data breaches have left consumers on edge about digital fraud. In fact, recent PYMNTS research shows that most consumers believe they can do a better job of identifying and protecting themselves against fraud than their FIs, with 71.2 percent of consumers cite this use case), paying merchants and contractors (64.5
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