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Mobile Payments Driving Contactless Dominance in Nordics as Cash All but Disappears

Fintech Finance

Card payments dominate the Nordic payment landscape, with 90 percent of shoppers using them for contactless payments either daily or once a week. Cards dominate but mobile payments are rising 76 percent of Nordic consumers use some form of mobile payment in physical sales locations.

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Apple card pushes payment companies to up their mobile game

Payments Source

Payments providers can use this announcement as a chance to evaluate their mobile payment offerings and gain a better understanding of consumers’ evolving expectations in order to better serve their merchants, writes Casey Bullock, general manager of global enterprise e-commerce for North America at Worldpay.

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The Full List of Fintech Unicorns in Asia (2025)

Fintech News

From digital payments to decentralised finance (DeFi), these companies are solving real-world challenges like financial inclusion and cross-border transactions, while setting new global standards for innovation. billion payments Coda 2.5 billion payments, gamification Airwallex 5.5 billion insurtech Matrixport 1.05

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How e-Wallets in APAC Are Leading the Cashless Charge

Fintech News

According to The State of Digital Retail Payments in Asia Pacific 2024 by Forrester , high-growth economies like Indonesia and Malaysia are leading the shift, with consumers increasingly favouring digital payments. Singapores Fluid Digital Payment Landscape Singapores digital wallet scene presents an interesting mix.

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The Ultimate Guide to Accepting Credit Card Payments

Stax

Credit cards are a staple in the wallets of consumers today, and they will undoubtedly be a payment method of choice for years to come, particularly as the adoption of mobile and contactless payments continues to grow. In fact, ResearchAndMarkets.com forecasts the global credit card payment market to grow to $762.16

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Mobile Payments On Smartphones Soar In Japan

PYMNTS

Making mobile payments with a smartphone in Japan is more popular than ever, according to eMarketer, a New York-based market research company. It also predicts that by 2023 the number of mobile payment users will rise to nearly 28 million, 25 percent of the population.

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How modern payments processing has changed: In conversation with BPC

The Payments Association

The Payments Association (TPA)’s George Iddenden recently sat down with Peter Theunis, senior vice president sales and European managing director at BPC to discuss the remarkable transformation of the payments processing industry, driven by the rise of fintech, the shift towards digital payments, and evolving consumer behaviours.

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