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Contactless Payments: Touch to Pay? Here’s What It Is

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It’s easy to implement contactless payments if you are working with a payment provider who offers the service. Touch to pay (also called tap to pay or touchpay) payment services allow you to make a payment simply by tapping your card, wearable device, or smartphone on a contactless payment terminal.

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EMV Chip Cards: What You Need to Know About PIN or Signature Cards and How They Work

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EMV (Europay, Mastercard, and Visa) chip card use has continued to expand in use since its tumultuous rollout in 2015. The EMV standard has now become a global standard for cards equipped with computer chips and the technology used to authenticate chip-card transactions.

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Chip Card Shipments Top 2.3 Billion In 2017

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Generating year-on-year growth of nearly 4 percent, Smart Payment Association (SPA) data indicates that 2.3 billion payment chip cards were shipped worldwide in 2017. had soared the global demand for smart payment cards by as much as 34 percent, an SPA report found in 2016.

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Why Connected Consumers Crave Contactless Payments

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From barter, to cash, to eCommerce, and now, to contactless payments – even those enabled by voice command. The steady drumbeat of tech has brought purchasing from bills and coins to cards and contactless payments – done across all manner of devices and through pushes, taps, swipes and waves, at any time.

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UK Contactless Payments Grow 18 Pct. YOY

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Finance shows that contactless payments in the country continue to grow. In fact, almost 50 percent of all debit card payments are contactless. billion transactions with their debit cards, which is a jump of 8.9 Contactless transactions totaled £7.2 don’t rely on swiping or chip card readers.

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Contactless Payments Continue To Grow In UK

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Finance shows that contactless payments in the country continue to grow. In fact, almost 50 percent of all debit card payments are contactless. billion transactions with their debit cards, which is a jump of 8.9 Contactless transactions totaled £7.2 don’t rely on swiping or chip card readers.

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Issuers have a path to beat Apple Pay

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The EMV migration includes support for chip cards and NFC contactless payments, giving banks room to compete in the contactless payments market just in time for wearables to take off.

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