Check your wallet: Brits carry less than £5 in cash in their wallets
Britons are now carrying less than £5 in their wallets as newer payment methods such as contactless cards and smartphones become more and more popular, new research finds.
Britons are now carrying less than £5 in their wallets as newer payment methods such as contactless cards and smartphones become more and more popular, new research finds.
This infographic is a snapshot look at the mobile industry and explores who the key players are, how their technology works and who uses them.
This week, Circle rolls out its social payments app in Spain and Ireland allowing customers to link any Spanish or Irish bank account to Circle to send and receive P2P payments to friends and family within their countries and across borders instantly.
Android Pay is now available in Hong Kong and is available at over 5,000 locations in Hong Kong where contactless payments are accepted.
First Data has released Clover Go, a new contactless payment reader that works with swipe and EMV cards, as well as NFC (including Apple Pay, Android Pay & Samsung Pay) devices.
The number of consumers using a mobile device, including a smartphone and a tablet, to make payments has tripled in the last year, according to a new study from Visa.
The rapid growth of the gig economy is variously regarded as a highly positive development but one that can be exploited by corporates exploiting weak employment laws to their advantage, writes Richard Hartung.
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.
The days of having to remember the three-digit code on the back of your card may soon be over as trials of OT's payment card that generates one time CVC codes every day have begun.
Cash in the UK is in quite the precarious position as new research shows that 44% of British people are prepared to ditch notes if card payments were universally accepted.