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Covid-era contactless payment limit rises drove consumer usage but not adoption, research finds

NFCW

The Swiss central bank’s researchers based their analysis on anonymized, transaction-level data for a large sample of point-of-sale debit card payments made in Switzerland between 2019 and 2021. “In Switzerland – the country we study – the tap-and-go limit was doubled from CHF40 to CHF80 in April 2020.

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REPORT: Connected At Home: The Devices That Got Consumers Through 2020

PYMNTS

Consumers’ daily lives look very different now than they did just one year ago. Consumers across the nation have instead hunkered down at home, working, socializing, shopping and paying online. Our research shows that just 20 percent of consumers own eReaders in 2020, for example, down from 23 percent in 2019 and 26 percent in 2018.

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U.S. Faster Payments Council Releases Consumer Bill Pay Research White Paper

Faster Payments Council

Collaboration with Glenbrook Partners Explores How Faster Payments Can Transform the Bill Pay Experience July 22, 2020 – The U.S. Faster Payments Council (FPC), in partnership with Glenbrook, today released the research white paper, "Faster Payments and the Potential to Transform Consumer Bill Pay."

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MENA Consumers Ditch Cash in Favour of Digital E-Commerce Payments, Checkout.com Reveals

The Fintech Times

Consumers are increasingly turning to digital payment methods instead of cash across the UAE and Saudi Arabia, according to new data from Checkout.com , the global payments solution provider. Past data revealed a 56 per cent increase in consumers engaging in e-commerce weekly since 2020.

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NEW DATA: Black Friday 2020: COVID-19 Steepens Physical Retail’s Long Slide

PYMNTS

The divide between digital and brick-and-mortar commerce hit a tipping point this holiday season, with more consumers than ever going online to kick off their holiday shopping sprees. This is the first of many questions that PYMNTS sought to answer in the new Black Friday 2020 Report: Crossing The Digital-Physical Shopping Divide.

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Flywire Research Shows Strong Consumer Demand For Post-Pandemic Travel

PYMNTS

Payments firm Flywire has released new research showing that travel agents, as well as operators, receive high marks for handling interruptions the pandemic has caused but that travelers also have “suggestions for improvement,” according to an announcement. It’s also impacting consumers significantly.

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Consumer Duty: Ensuring Consumer Welfare Is a Priority in Insurance as Consumers Feel Undervalued

The Fintech Times

the consumer advisor. s monthly Consumer Insight Tracker found that trust in the insurance industry has dropped to a confidence score of -24. Since it started being tracked in August 2020, the industry has never seen 44 per cent of consumers say they do not trust insurance companies. Rocio Concha , Which?