A Future For Mobile Payments

The future of payments is current shifting to another path with how technology is changing and is currently modifying how we process our payments and how we store data. It is going away from low-tech and paper based tools, expensive and bulky registers, and physical card swipes. And it is introducing and renovating online commerce and online payment. This is happening due to the decrease of money supply and checks in the current market because people are starting to pay more and more there bills online. As the economy improces and corporations and business gets larger they have started a large-scale implementation of processors in electronic payment technology in their business ands services. Also, credit and debit are growing amongst consumers and it has been the highest that it has even been in history.

Although major retailers have had credit card breaches, which devastated consumer trust in credit, Mobile payment systems stay efficient, but risk personal and financial data fraud similar to plastic credit card usage theft. Patrons fear merchants can track your shopping habits, location and financial records using a mobile GPS signal. Nevertheless, worries that someone can steal their information when sent wirelessly therefore consumer confidence remains low. Thorough safety measures will help give customers composure and regain assurance. (Busby, 2014) (Sapienza, 2013)

According to the most recent Federal Reserve study; most of us haven’t set foot in a banking hall in ages. It is a lost battle to banks that opt to use traditional methods to conduct their banking transactions (Gup 2003). By December of last year, close to half of all smartphone users in the United States had transacted some or all of their banking on their phones and iPhones. In the United Kingdom alone, rates of mobile banking transactions doubled over the course of a single year (Scn Education 2001). A banking business that invests in this type of technology gets assured of increasing their customer base.

there is a new world alongside this of mobile payments. Apple pay and Android pay are

I think we are getting a glimpse into the future with Apple Pay and Google Wallet. The magnifying glass will shift from credit card security to mobile device security. The idea of a virtual wallet seems like it could be 5-10 years from having a significant adoption rate. How will mobile device manufacturers and mobile payment software companies react to the bad guys finding vulnerabilities in their systems? Will they be able to quickly release patches that fix security vulnerabilities related to the virtual wallet? I think it is a large change that will heavily impact the retail landscape and will happen sooner than people think.

. Mobile payment users >190 MM in2012, which is over3 % of total mobile users worldwide a level considered as "mainstream”

In today’s economy, cash or a credit card is needed to meet the basic human needs. It is an apparent fact that we need cash or credit cards to purchase items such as food, clothing, and to buy gas. Also, when you are out shopping and discover that you have used all the cash in your possession, it is then that you realize that the advantage of having a credit card. Furthermore, with cash, you are restricted to the amount in your wallet or purse; however, a credit card allows you to pay for your purchase at a later date. Both cash and credit cards can be useful when you manage them wisely. While cash and credit cards are similar in that they both are readily accessible, used for goods and services at the time of purchase, they are dissimilar because of theft, high- interest rates, identity theft.

Picture this, you are purchasing your favorite drink and as you reach for your wallet, the only option you have for paying is electronically. That could become the case if we become a cashless society. You will see what a cashless society is and what it all entails. With disturbing someone’s privacy to the results of hijacking electronic accounts, cashless societies can have some advantages and disadvantages. As a list of countries that have already made the surface of topic when it comes to cashless societies, you will see how much of a difference cash is being used today as in years before. Cashless societies are creeping up upon people without them realizing it, but becoming aware of it could help people as they enter into the future.

In many developing countries it's common for a person to have a mobile phone but not a bank account. In fact, more than 1 billion people fit this description, and the number is only likely to increase. To that end, many companies are considering how to give residents access to banking services via their handsets. The GSM Association predicts that by 2012, nearly 300 million of the previously "unbanked" will be using some form of mobile banking.

The move to use electronic cash in an ironically termed society dubbed “cashless”; there are many issues that include

Outside of the classroom and the office, technology is still omnipresent. The internet, like most advancements and perhaps the best known example of modern technology, began at a military level (“Information Technology” 2) and wound up eventually landing in the laps of businesses and the common person. With this, the normal way of conducting business changed dramatically. Instead of physically exchanging money, it is now possible to use a website like PayPal to make transactions (Friedman 84). This transaction can occur from a computer, smart-phone, or some other electronic device, possible because an extraordinary amount of people, especially young adults, now carry them around constantly (Champy 1). It may have been inevitable, but it is still staggering to see how much these advancing technologies has become commonplace.

The online payment marketplace is experiencing an explosion of innovative ideas, plans, and announcements, which one commentator has likened to a “goat rodeo”, a chaotic situation in which powerful players with different agendas compete with one another for public acceptance, and above all, huge potential revenues. Others liken the payment marketplace to a battle among the four platform titans Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon. Each of these titans have their own versions of a future payment system that challenges the other players. And let’s not forget PayPal, the reigning power in alternative online payment, or the credit card companies who process over 70% of online payments, or the

To answer my main question “Will mobile payments replace credit cards?”, I have conducted an online survey as part of the primary research. I received 92 responses from the survey. A 2009 study by Deloitte predicts that by the end of 2015, seventy percent of mobile payment users will be under the age of 40 and that the annual spend of these Millennials (also referred to as Generation Y) will reach $2.45 trillion dollars in the US alone.(Dennehy D, Sammon D, 2015). So, I have focused mainly on the age groups 18-29 which were 69% and 30-44 which were 21% of the total responses (Exhibit 1). 88% of the people were aware of the mobile payments (Exhibit 2) and 33% were extremely comfortable with the concept of mobile payments (Exhibit 3). The research clearly tells that people are aware of the technology and are comfortable using it. Respondents of the survey were concerned by the security threats that mobile payments impose, but then companies while putting this idea into implementation have to primarily take care of the security aspect of the mobile payments concept (Exhibit 4). As per the usage of mobile payments, respondents have primarily (52%) used mobile payments for online bill payments (Exhibit 5) while the retail usage is 30% which clearly suggests mobile payments still have a long way to go in future.

Though issues like “Never thought about it” can be addressed by awareness and marketing the benefits of mobile payment, the others need to be worked out with better solutions and implementations. Though Apple Pay has sort of revamped the mobile payment sector, it isn’t the first and only mobile payment option out there. Google Wallet and Paypal, the old contenders, are still going strong and are very much in the game. The competition is tough and add to that the fact that at least 37% of the populace still think cash and card transactions are much easier to deal with. To win their vote, it’s going to have to get real easy and a one click checkout mobile payment option is as easy as it can ever get.

The last decade has witnessed a lot of growth of mobile communication devices and wireless technologies across the globe. This has led to a change in the way many activities are conducted and opened the way for m-commerce, which is e-commerce's next evolutionary stage. The significant power of m-commerce is primarily as a result of the ability to connect wireless devices anytime, anywhere (The Future of Mobile Payment Systems : Rise of the Mobile Wallet 2012-2017 [Electronic version], 2011).