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Big Tech’s Big Shadow Over FIs

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These investments have to shift toward making more channels easily available … whether it’s app or online or voice or chat-based instruction. If issuers and banks don’t do that, he said, Apple, Google, Samsung and a whole host of Big Tech players are ready to step in and do so — taking away FI customers in the process.

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Mobile Payments: What’s In It For Me?

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South Korea has 11 mobile payment services such as KakaoPay, Naver Pay and Samsung Pay, and around 28 million cards were loaded onto users’ smartphones in the second quarter. Carrier billing allows uses to make online payments. billion won from the previous quarter. But In the U.S., Apple Needs To Diversify.

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