Payment systems: cards are only part of the story, you need whole picture locally
Globally payment cards keep on expanding, but the vital variations are local
Collecting Payments via Mobile
Background
There are already some 6.8 billion mobile phone subscriptions in the world (as of February 2014) and 2.6 billion are smart phones. It's a very fast-growing market: the number of smart phones…
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