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It’s a question WorldPay’s Casey Bullock is pondering, on this week’s PaymentEye. It seems the uptake of digital assistants has been slow, but according to recent reports that’s incredibly likely to change – and soon. That could change the consumer payments markets beyond all recognition.

Bullock presents this as one of many interesting questions this week on PaymentEye. Be sure to check out everything else we have on the site.

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Though still a burgeoning technology, most Americans today are at least familiar with digital assistants (like Apple’s Siri voice recognition software or the Google Assistant virtual personal assistant), even if they don’t have one of their own.