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The number of mobile payment transactionsis forecasted to be near

50 Billion in 2015

Killing Credit CardNear Field Communication(NFC)- the technologybehind Visa payWave- is already used to makecontactless payments. But since NFC can be usedby mobile phones, wearable technology or evenunder your skin, will eventually kill the credit card?

19% of British willconsider to pay

good andservices using

voiceauthentification

by 2020A single numberImagine being able to use your existing creditcard number forever, on any card. It's an ideaproposed to make the credit card industrymore competitive, as it would be easier toswitch providers without having to update yournumber everywhere.

2.7mill UK customers aged over 70 arenow registered to use internet banking,and more than 600,000 of these people

are 80+.

online shopping grew

30%2014

Less store based paymentsMobile and internet-based transactionscontinue to grow, moving more transactionsonline on putting pressure on physical stores

8 million mobile payments a weeknearly of 19%

of all transaction in US stores

Wallets become virtual

Tools for faster online checkout and payment are emerging.Paypal, Visa Checkout, Apple Pay and Google Pay are virtualwallets already operating in various global locations, and whencombined with increasing online spend, may become the standardwallet of the future.

PIN number numberedVisa payWave already removes theneed forPIN transactions under 100$.Now and in the future, the PIN numbermight be entirely replaced by facial,eyeball, fingerprint and voice recognitionsoftware to identify you and authorisetransactions.

No Currency borders

Bitcoin and other virtual currencies offer

instant, cheap and secure ways to pay,

and have gained transaction despite

concerns surrounding ilegal activity and

tax avoidance. Some economists foresee

them being used as tools to help

stimulate, complement or entirely replace

existing border-based currencies.

The Future of OnlinePayments

185m European consumers areexpected to use mobile payment

apps this year

Turkishare the most advance in mobile payments.

56%

Turkish

used mobile

payment app

will spendmillion

on

35minutes

every

27%

of global online transactionsare now on mobile

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smart phone

Just 6% of iPhone6 owners regularlyuse Apple Pay, and85 % had nevertried it – as ofMarch 2015

The mobile NFCpayments market will

hit $130bn by 2020mobile payments

will reach

in the next5 years

$3 trillion

Sourceshttps://www.hottopics.ht/stories/finance/25-stats-that-tell-you-everything-about-the-state-of-mobile-

payments/

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/financial-services/irish-consumers-spend-record-28bn-on-their-

visa-cards-1.2079838

https://www.worldpaymentsreport.com/

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/22/can-a-parallel-digital-currency-solve-the-

greek-financial-crisis

41,016 investors have putmoney into the 1,100 mobile

payments companiesregistered on the Angelist

site

By Noelia Sierra, E­Marketing, IBAT College,Dublin