The latest World Payments Report from CAPgemini, RBS and EFMA is another tour de force with amazing range and depth of analysis. The key findings are mostly expected:

• non-cash payments volumes grew overall by 7.1% (16.9% in emerging markets)
• cards (debit and credit) account for 55.%% of all non-cash payments with debit cards accounting for more than one in three of all payments, partly due to the use of cards for smaller-ticket items
• electronic and mobile payments maintained their rapid growth trajectory
• cheque usage continues to decline world-wide.

The report's estimates of the growth rates of non-cash transactions (billions) and mix of payment instruments (%), by region 2001, 2009-2010 are shown below:

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