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Mobile proximity payment transaction volume to top USD 487 bln by 2020 - report

Thursday 21 May 2015 09:12 CET | News

The installation of NFC-capable payment terminals, prevalence of NFC-capable smartphones, and emergence of tokenization and biometrics have created a great deal of consumer and merchant interest in mobile proximity payments, a recent report points out.

According to a recent report from Aite Group, an independent research and advisory company, the mobile proximity payment transaction volume is expected to reach USD 487 billion by 2020.

The study also unveils that in 2014, the transaction volume of mobile proximity payments hit USD 3.2 billion, and that in 2015 is expected to more than doubled, with USD 7.5 billion transaction volume.

Furthermore, the report suggests that mobile proximity payments transactions are expected to more than double their volume year-on-year, thus topping USD 22.4 billion by 2016, USD 50 billion by 2017, USD 107.7 billion by 2018, USD 226.6 billion by 2019.

The report is based on interviews with over 50 opinion leaders, chief executive officers, and business managers. It describes the technologies, introduces major players, identifies issues and important lessons learned, and forecasts the growth of the mobile proximity payment ecosystem for the next five years.


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