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Financial Inclusion in Latin America
Jul 2018
Latin America is home to a number of innovative financial inclusion efforts to reach unbanked consumers, as well as to reach financially underserved consumers who only utilise basic financial services. The region demonstrates the importance of ...
Strategy Briefing
Retail Payment Preferences Around the World
May 2018
Payment is an integral part of the retail transaction. Some of the largest retailers today have come to power by making payments more convenient. Convenience is, however, largely subjective, and it is often relative to previous norms. This report ...
Strategy Briefing
The Impact of Online Retail in Asia Pacific on Financial Services and Consumer Payments
May 2018
The conversion of online retailing from store-based retailing has impacted financial services and the way consumers pay across the world. In emerging markets the transition has been fastest in Asia Pacific, and allowed non-bank competitors into the ...
Strategy Briefing
Opening the Vaults: The Impact of PSD2 on the European Payscape and Beyond
Mar 2018
The rise of smartphones and the convenience of internet banking are dramatically shifting how consumers approach payments. With opportunity comes risk. Finding a way to regulate this new payscape must balance competing security, innovation and ...
Country Report
Financial Cards and Payments in the Czech Republic
Feb 2018
Financial cards and payments continued to perform very well in the Czech Republic in 2017, with this set to continue over the forecast period. Growth in both the number of transactions and transaction value is being driven not only by the improving ...
Country Report
Financial Cards and Payments in Russia
Feb 2018
Despite the ongoing economic and financial crisis, which Russia started experiencing in mid-2014, financial cards and payments performed positively in Russia in 2017. This was mainly due to the fact that Russian consumers and financial institutions, ...
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Financial Cards and Payments in Western Europe
Feb 2018
Western Europe is the third largest region in the world for both consumer and card payments. At a country level, consumer payment preferences vary considerably across markets. Cash payments remain a dominant force in several countries, while a ...
Country Report
Financial Cards and Payments in China
Feb 2018
Card payments are gaining in popularity in China, mainly boosted by the strong growth of credit card transactions for convenience and various promotions by issuers and operators. Many commercial banks aim to develop and promote their credit ...
Country Report
Financial Cards and Payments in South Africa
Jan 2018
The economy remained subdued over the review period, with consumers facing constraints on disposable incomes. Although this trend hampered some categories, such as credit cards, the introduction of different types of card products, to offer financial...
Country Report
Financial Cards and Payments in Vietnam
Jan 2018
Together with a young and rapidly growing urban population, the growth of internet retailing is a favourable environment for financial cards. Young consumers are quicker to adapt to new payment methods such as using financial cards and are making the...
Country Report
Financial Cards and Payments in Colombia
Jan 2018
The clear slowdown in Colombia’s economy is being reflected in distrustful and depressed consumers, with unemployment figures remaining high, while there was a reform at the end of 2016 which raised the taxes of citizens. Despite inflation slowing ...
Country Report
Financial Cards and Payments in Australia
Jan 2018
Total card transactions in Australia continue to increase, with strong debit and credit card transaction growth being driven by the offering of convenience and reward promotions by issuers and operators. In the highly competitive credit and debit ...
Country Report
Financial Cards and Payments in Nigeria
Jan 2018
Financial cards recorded further growth in number of cards and retail value sales in 2017, although the economy limited consumer incomes and employment. A ban on the usage of financial cards abroad by the Central Bank of Nigeria, due to scarcity of ...
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Consumer Finance Global Overview
Nov 2017
Card and electronic payments continue to take global consumer payment share from cash and other paper payments. From 2016 to 2017, the card payment landscape has moved towards greater credit adoption in both emerging and developed markets as ...
Strategy Briefing
Financial Cards and Payments in Asia Pacific
Nov 2017
Asia Pacific represents the largest region in both financial cards in circulation and card payment value. As a result, the region also is home to the largest card network and issuers by the same metrics. Having rapidly adopted card payments over the ...
Country Report
Financial Cards and Payments in Ukraine
Nov 2017
The number of cash transactions continued to decrease due to restrictions on cash payments, wider acceptance of card payments, the rapidly increasing number of point-of-sale terminals and Ukrainian consumers’ changing habits. The number of ...
Country Report
Financial Cards and Payments in India
Nov 2017
Financial cards in India in 2017 registered healthy growth for the year. Growth was primarily driven by the demonetisation move declared by the government of India in November 2016. Demonetisation resulted in all INR500 and INR1,000 notes becoming ...
Country Report
Financial Cards and Payments in Mexico
Nov 2017
Financial cards enjoyed healthy volume and value growth over the review period. Debit cards and credit cards remained key types of financial cards in Mexico. Nonetheless, cash payments continued to lead in terms of transactions due to the high ...
Country Report
Financial Cards and Payments in Canada
Nov 2017
Debit and credit cards are already quite saturated in Canada; prepaid cards continue to show the fastest growth in terms of value transactions albeit from a much smaller base. Credit cards continue to dominate the category and are the most commonly ...
Country Report
Financial Cards and Payments in Japan
Nov 2017
Although the Japanese are fonder of paying in cash than other countries, they are becoming more positive to the shift from cash payments to card payments, which led a strong value increase in total cards transactions over the review period, while ...
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