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Digital payment has made its way into several industries to offer them with convenient, secure, easy, and fast mode of payment.
FREMONT, CA: Industries took a massive leap towards advancement when they started digitalization the payment process to attain a convenient, secured, easy, and fast mode of payment. The companies have successfully achieved all of them because they have witnessed immense digital payment development in recent years. There is also no doubt that shortly digital payments have the potential to make more progress. Here we can carefully look at the trends that digital payment will follow in present times.
Biometric authentication
In the present year, there will be an increasing demand for biometric authentication. Technology is a verification method that utilized the biological and structural features of a person. The verification system consists of facial recognition, heartbeat analysis, fingerprinting scanners, vein mapping, and iris recognition.
As the issue of fraud and identity theft has increased, considerable biometric authentication will be trustworthy and a safe option for the digital payments that are being conducted. Moreover, according to the industry data, the biometric transaction will increase by 18 billion in the year 2021.
Since biometric authentication implements and offers efficiency, security, and accuracy, it is unique and a significant method of payment. The technique is extremely safe as it requires a unique feature of a person.
Mobile Point of Sale
The merchants have also got rid of the brick-and-mortar locations and their in-store-payments with the revolutionary technology of mobile-point-of-sale (mPOS). The businesses are allowed to visit various places like trade shows and concerts where they can easily accept digital payments from the customers.
Gen Z: The tech-savvy generation
The term Generation Z or Gen Z is generally utilized for the people born between the years 1999-2012. The people who are aged 7 to 20 are known as Gen Z, and this generation is also popularly known as the digital world.
However, by the year2020, Gen Z will exceed the total population of millennials, and this shift of the people will have immense implications. The change in population will signify that most of the community in the world is exposed to technology or tech-savvy.
Moreover, generation Z will be more reliant to the automated, efficient, cutting-edge technologies, and due to this, there will be growth in the digital payment system.