Overview
The continuing payments transformation
While merchants will continue to influence consumers’ payment methods, it is ultimately the individual consumer’s choice how to transact. The appeal of mobile payments and other technologies continues to shape the debate in the payments industry, but it is the various nonpayment-related tasks that will be notable activity next year in the mobile payments arena.
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