"People with experience of contactless cards are starting to see it as the first step to the arrival of mobile payments.
There are no guarantees of success, of course, but pharma specialists who follow the results from clinical trials and the arrival of milestone payments from partners see real promise.
"There is a huge problem about to hit us with universal credit and we are very concerned about the arrival of direct payments and what that might mean for some people in the sector," Blackman-Woods said.
But predictions about the coming End of Cash have been around for years, growing louder since the arrival of contactless payment, of Square, and of Bitcoin.
For entertainment companies like Zhu's, the arrival of the payment card in China is as much of a miracle as the Internet itself.
In May, Google announced the forthcoming arrival of its new payments platform, Android Pay, which will effectively pick up where Google Wallet left off, in becoming a mobile payments solution that allows consumers to tap and pay using their smartphones at local stores, while also allowing for digital payments.
In May, Google announced the forthcoming arrival of its new payments platform, Android Pay, which will effectively pick up where Google Wallet left off, in becoming a mobile payments solution that allows consumers to tap and pay using their smartphones at local stores, while also allowing for digital payments.
Visa says that the adoption of these chip technologies will help prepare retailers and payments companies for the arrival of NFC-based mobile payments by building the necessary infrastructure to accept and process chip transactions that support either a signature or PIN at the point of sale.
Perhaps one of the most revealing moments on the road to future money came with the arrival of a mobile payment system Google announced with great fanfare last fall.
Just as dramatic, the arrival of easy mobile payment options will drive the next phase of enhanced mobile commerce to evolve.
For quite some time now, Android developers have been waiting for the arrival of an in-app payment and billing system.
