Contactless payments ubiquitous in China, but struggle to take hold in the West

Strategy Analytics – contactless payments and digital wallets such as Alipay and WeChat Pay are ubiquitous in China but despite being around for several years, they have been much slower to catch

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mPOS transaction values to exceed $1.9tn by 2024, fuelled by new use cases

New data from Juniper Research forecasts that mPOS (Mobile Points of Sale) transaction values will exceed $1.9 trillion (€1.7 trillion) by 2024, up from $850 billion (€765 billion) in 2019.

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RiverPay selected as technology facilitator for payments

Integrated payments and marketing platform RiverPay Inc.announced it is facilitating payments through two of the most popular mobile payment systems favored by Chinese consumers, Alipay and WeChat Pay, at Harrods’

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Pekka Rantala appointed the new CEO of ePassi

Pekka Rantala has been appointed as CEO of ePassi, a Finnish fintech company specialising in mobile payments. Rantala will begin in his position in October 2019.

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