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- Newslink Trends-The Global Strategic Perspective
- Juniper Research says digital wallet users to exceed 4.4 billion by 2025, as mobile drives digital payments’ revolution
- Criminals exploit COVID-19 pandemic with rise in scams targeting victims online
- Equifax says Open Banking proving pivotal to pandemic lending
- Consumer confidence in banks, credit card providers and investments remain stable as demand supercharges digital finance says Toluna research
- Mintos says Europeans are starting to embrace investing
- US banks see IT modernisation as a way to improve customer experience
- Risk mitigation in global trade depends on digitisation-Andrew Raymond, CEO, Bolero International comments
- Juniper Research new study says the volume of B2B payments facilitated by non-banks will exceed 53 billion in 2022, from a COVID-related low of 38 billion in 2020
- CMA issues fifth publication over 3 years of the service quality league table of personal and business current account providers
- Barclays says scammers take advantage of COVID-19, cashing in on nations’ uncertainty
- S&P Global report says financial market infrastructure sector's earnings likely to cool off In second half
- Global banking market capitalisation slumps by over 30% amid pandemic says Buyshares research
- Digital wallet spend in Europe & North America to increase by 40% in 2019, finds study
- Juniper forecasts mobile money transactions will exceed 200 billion by 2024
- Banks can save the world from climate change, says former UN climate chief
- Research by NatWest reveals gender divide over attitudes to saving
- Europe’s big bank problem: too much capital is trapped in the US, says Scope
- Later-Life lending market set to almost double in the next 10 years, finds report
- Barclays/Cebr report challenges nation to think differently about wealth
- Fifth of UK investors looking to debt investment, new research reveals
- Regtech will play a more important role in PSD2, says Mitek
- Banks turn to Fintech partnerships to improve customer experience, finds Fraedom
- New industry code to tackle fraud must deliver, says Which?
- New TTF report highlights loss of trust in financial services
- Arxan highlights financial app vulnerability epidemic
- SAS asks whether banks really need to choose between operations and innovation
- Which? raises alarm as almost 1,700 free ATMs become fee-charging
- Financial wellness affects half of peoples’ mental or physical health, finds report
- Study finds traditional financial institutions embrace Fintech disruption
- Grass is greener for environmentally friendly businesses, finds Barclays
- Prospective homeowners would consider a 40-year mortgage to escape renting, finds Santander
- Millennials’ needs are changing the face of banking industry, says new report
- FS is putting consumer data at risk by failing to protect mobile apps, says Arxan
- A lack of belief in their ability holds 28% women back in work, says Cambridge & Counties
- ‘Which?’ reveals Scotland has lost over a third of its bank branches in eight years
- Next downturn unlikely to be as bad as 2008, according to S&P
- FCA reveals findings from first cryptoassets consumer research
- US consumers favour single mobile app for banking and payments
- Banks suffering major IT shutdowns every day, ‘Which?’ reveals
- The US will be a key offshore centre in 2019, says GlobalData
- Debit industry changes markedly in 10 years of the Debit Issuer Study
- UK's ‘Big Five’ face ‘too big to compete’ as small challengers secure stellar returns
- Banks as vulnerable now as before crash, says new study
- Leverage ratio a constant conundrum for European and US banks, says SNL
16th September 2011
PayPal details POS retail push
PayPal has revealed its Point of Sale strategy to try and carve out a slice of the future market. The advantages PayPal believe their strategy has includes:
- 1 Allowing retailers to accept PayPal without any new terminal cost. The mobile phone number is used where a card number might be expected. This can be input manually or using a PayPal issued card. A pin is used for validation.
- 2 PayPal utilise its current merchant network through the offering to customers of discount vouchers and directed adverts to customers. The vouchers and adverts are electronic and stored on the phone. A search for a product either by name or code is possible across the merchant base within the customers neighbourhood.
- 3 PayPal stress there is no wait for NFC phones to be manufactured and adopted. All services can be used with any moderately advanced phone immediately.
- 4 The widespread holding of PayPal accounts means the merchant can immediately attract a larger prospect base than a scheme tied only to certain cardholders or banks.
- 5 Combined with PayPal P2P, including by 'bumping phones', this can be used for transfer between friends or paying allowances to teenagers who may not have a bank or card account.
-6 No actual bank or card account is exposed in the transaction making it safer from a fraud point of view.
PayPal's initial success was by marketing to a sector that established financial organisations did not seek to attract. It will be a harder job to take on the major card companies on their own turf. However PayPal is entering using some of the advantages from its existing extensive network. Retailers, with the promise of not needing any capital investment may be interested in having another player that has a large customer base in existence. From the retailer's point of view much will depend on the one thing not yet revealed - the total cost to the retailer per transaction.