Dear Subscriber,

In this afternoon’s newsletter, two big pieces of news for contactless: new research from the UK Card Association shows that monthly contactless card spending in the UK has passed the £2 billion mark as of July this year. And analyst firm Berg Insights has predicted that nearly 80% of the world’s Point of Sale terminals will be contactless by 2020.

If there’s one metric that clearly presents the rising success of contactless payments, it would be monthly spend. But evidently this momentum doesn’t apply only to ever-increasing spend, with 2016 going down as a strong year for contactless infrastructure.

Meanwhile, a new infographic by Binary Options Robots looks back over the history of binary options, from 1973 to the present day.

Enjoy!

If there is one metric that can be used to most clearly present the rising success of contactless payments, it would be monthly spend. New research from the UK Card Association shows that monthly contactless card spending has passed the £2 billion mark in July.

The contactless technology momentum doesn’t only apply to the ever increasing spending as new research from analyst firm Berg Insight predicts that nearly 80% of the world’s POS terminals will be contactless within the next four years.

In a new infographic, Binary Options Robots recaps the history of binary options since 1973, the highs and the lows, through to 2016 and the present day.

NatWest, Worldpay and Thyngs have partnered with the Royal British Legion to introduce contactless and mobile donations to Poppy Appeal.

Barclays got in on the act, as did Orange, not to mention Apple, Samsung and Google – now Vodafone’s UK customers can make contactless payments after the telco company partnered with PayPal.