Restaurants are diversifying the payment methods they accept. Cash, credit, and debit payments are almost universal across full-service restaurants in the U.S., but restaurants are increasingly accepting digital wallets like Apple Pay, Google Pay and Samsung Pay.

Ecommerce in Germany is predicted to increase by 9 percent this year. This means the German online retail industry could be worth 57.8 billion euros at the end of 2019. The growth rate of German ecommerce has slowly been decreasing the last few years.

The Mexican Undersecretary of Finance, Arturo Herrera, said that on April 1 he would start this program in his pilot test, in which the largest banks operating in Mexico will participate.

As of September, it will be mandatory for all institutions that have more than 3,000 client accounts.

One of the main problems of non-contact transactions (Card not-present – CNP) with payment cards (those in which it is not necessary to insert, slide or bring the physical card closer to a reader) has to do with the authentication of the cardholder at the time of making the transaction.

Almost half of Spanish electronic stores are present in marketplaces, according to the study conducted by Kanlli. In terms of sectors, food and beverages (74%), health and pharmacy (64%), appliances and home (57%) and fashion and accessories (53%) are the most outstanding in these ecommerce platforms.

Uruguayans do not escape the global trend and prefer more and more electronic means to make their payments, instead of cash. One example is the strong penetration among consumers of the use of the debit card.

According to comScore’s analysis of digital banking in Mexico, conducted with the MMX Multi-Platform measurement tool, it was found that one out of every four Internet users in Mexico has access to web or mobile banking, that is, a total of 16.3 million people.

Mobile phones have become tools for daily deal deals. In Latin America, 20% of online sales are made with a smartphone and the trend is for the figure to rise in the coming years.