OCBC ‘Pay Anyone’ integrates with Siri and iMessage

Singapore’s OCBC Bank is the first in Asia Pacific to enable secure payments via Apple’s Siri and iMessage, enabling customers to make e-payments powered by voice and messaging technology. This is the latest in a series of digital innovations that OCBC Bank has introduced to make day-to-day banking and payments more simple, fast and accessible for customers.

Payments Industry, We Have a Problem

The Financial Brand –

“Despite an increasing level of awareness of mobile payment options, usage of mobile payments at the point of sale remains low. While it is still uncertain what the catalyst will be to increase consumer adoption of digital payments, the payments landscape will remain dynamic, and increasingly digital.”

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Sweden is on its way to becoming the first cashless society on Earth

From Quartz –

“There’s a conspicuous lack of cash on Sweden’s streets.

So ubiquitous are digital payments in the country that attempting a paper money transaction at a Swedish bank might provoke a suspicious stare or a report to the police. That’s according to Niklas Arvidsson, a professor at Stockholm’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology.”

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