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How Adopting Mobile Payments Can Help Your Business Grow in 2024

Stax

Fast forward to now where much has changed, and research anticipates contactless mobile payments to exceed one billion users globally by 2024. Customers can pay with their watch or phone just by tapping it on a card reader, and businesses can host an entire POS system on a mobile phone.

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Vietnam’s Digital Finance Landscape: Banks Gain Ground Amidst Shifting Competition

Fintech News

Vietnam’s digital finance landscape is undergoing a notable shift as new players emerge, established ones fade, and traditional banks rise to prominence, a new report by Decision Lab shows. However, by Q4 2023, Moca had slipped out of the top rankings, replaced by mobile apps from traditional banks.

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Preparing Merchants For The Coming Mobile Wallet Boost

PYMNTS

As PYMNTS found in a recent consumer study, 40 percent of individuals are doing more of their daily retail and transactions online, partly because, well, there’s no other way to do it. It’s a reckoning that that can help them cross the Rubicon toward contactless (and, specifically, mobile) payments. As Good noted, four in 10 U.S.

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TD Bank Launches “Tap to Pay on iPhone” for Small and Micro Businesses

Fintech Finance

TD, America’s Most Convenient Bank® , today announced the launch of Tap to Pay on iPhone, enabling small and micro business owners across the U.S. to use their mobile phone for a seamless and secure point-of-sale (POS) experience. the technology provider of TD Online Accounting.

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Unveiling Vietnam’s Most Reputable Fintech Companies

Fintech News

A new report by Reputa, an online reputation monitoring system provided by Viettel, Vietnam’s state-owned telecommunications giant, offers an analysis of the country’s fintech sector and provides rankings of the most reputable fintech companies in Vietnam based on their online reputation and reach.

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US Debit Card Usage Soars as Consumers Embrace Convenient Payments

The Fintech Times

Commissioned by Discover® Financial Services’ PULSE debit network and conducted by Banking & Payments Group , the study gauged insights from large banks, credit unions and community banks. point-of-sale (POS) transactions, two account-to-account transfers, and 1.9 transactions per month, including 30.7

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Key Trends Shaping Cross-Border Payments in APAC

Fintech News

For point-of-sale (POS) transactions, digital wallets were the leading payment method in China and India in 2023. However, cash was the top POS payment method in six APAC markets, namely Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. million registered users.