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What's New in Payments

More than half of Asia Pacific consumers make digital payments at least once a week

By Tom Phillips • • Updated • nfcw.com
Survey graph showing percentage of Asia Pacific consumers making digital payments on named devices

Nine in 10 consumers in the Asia Pacific region have used mobile payment apps at least once during the past 12 months, while more than half have used digital payment methods at least once a week and a sixth have made a digital payment for the first time since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic (15%), according to research published by Kaspersky... More

What's New in Payments

One in ten Londoners ready to ‘consider microchipping themselves’ to speed up contactless payments

By Sarah Clark • • Updated • nfcw.com

Would you microchip yourself to speed up paying with contactless? — This is Money — “11% of Londoners surveyed by PaymentSense and YouGov said they’d consider microchipping themselves to make it quicker for them to make contactless payments… A quarter say they’d be happy to use a fingerprint scanner to verify payments. 16% would be in favour of using a retinal scanner to do so.”

UK consumers want more biometric security options for online banking

By Rian Boden • • Updated • nfcw.com
Equifax research

More than half of UK consumers (56%) would prefer to use a biometric security method over traditional options like passwords to log into their financial accounts online, research released by Equifax reveals. 33% would prefer to use fingerprint recognition, 31% would like to use iris scanners, 7% facial recognition and 3% voice recognition. More

NFC World

One in three in the UK now aware of NFC

By Karl Dyer • • Updated • nfcw.com
YouGov

Just over a third of British adults (35%) are aware of NFC-enabled mobile devices, with 9% saying they know that their personal device is NFC-enabled and 22% of those having used NFC to make a payment, a YouGov survey of 1,501 people has found... More

NFC World

Germans need NFC reassurance

By Mike Clark • • Updated • nfcw.com

A survey carried out by market researcher YouGov in Germany has revealed that, while 54% of the population has heard of NFC, only one in six (16%) can see themselves using NFC and contactless payments in the future... More