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India’s Digital Payment Revolution: A Decade of Unprecedented Growth

Fintech News

Merchant acquiring solutions, including offline and online options like QR code payments, payment aggregators and payment gateways, also saw substantial growth of more than 25%, spurred by regulatory initiatives, rising QR penetration, and the entry of new players.

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The metaverse could be tech’s next trillion-dollar opportunity: These are the companies making it a reality

CB Insights

Bridging micro-vibrations, pneumatic systems for force resistance, and motion tracking, this technology can give the impression that digital objects have texture, stiffness, and weight. Headsets (VR): These companies are developing VR goggles — currently considered the main entry point to metaverse applications.

Metaverse 101
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Sleepless In 2017: The Eight Big Shifts That Should Keep FIs, Retailers and Payments Execs Up At Night

PYMNTS

In many parts of the developed world, regulators are treating bank accounts in much the same way as a mobile phone number — insisting on account portability and third-party access without much regard to the impact to the bank assets that incumbents have spent money acquiring, maintaining and securing. Commerce Gets Conversational.