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Payment through smartphones has exploded in the world and the health contingency has been one of the factors that have accelerated this habit.
Apple Pay arrived in Mexico the same day that Samsung Pay announced its departure from the country.
Contactless payments have become an important phenomenon in the market.
This Tuesday the new banks that joined the payment platform of Apple Pay, but nevertheless, BBVA It does not appear in this renewed list with which it is sought to turn the iPhone into a wallet and avoid having to carry your bank cards or cash, so that you simply pay without contact with the help of your smartphone.
For two years, the number of users using mobile payment methods has increased by 320 million since 2018, when the sample began to be taken.
This means that, based on the Juniper Research report, in the world 760 million people paid through this method during 2020, the year in which the health contingency got out of control worldwide.
The upward projection in the use of technology that saves contact at the time of payment, is a reflection of the habit that the consumer has adopted in which the contingency motivated this phenomenon as a preventive measure to reduce the cases of contagion of this pathogen.
That is why various products such as Apple Pay became important news when it announced its landing in Mexico, only that there have been a series of details that we cannot lose sight of, such as the new banks that it adds in its operation in the country and the that are discarded.
BBVA explains why you won’t see it on Apple Pay
A simple question to the CM of BBVA has been enough to understand why the Spanish bank has refused to appear in the Apple Pay portfolio within Mexico, now that we know that cards such as Hey Banco, Rappi, HSBC, Banorte, Inbursa and Banregio join the platform.
The bank currently has a strong digital online banking platform, so to the question asked through BBVA Mexico, it answered, the bank was only right to recommend using its BBVA Mexico App, which unified the well-known BBVA Wallet in days gone by.
Hello good day. Carolina takes care of you. We suggest you make your purchases online with your Digital Card, which you can generate from your BBVA Mexico application.
– BBVA México Responde (@BBVARe_mx) August 3, 2021
New habits
The technology that has turned smartphones into payment terminals has consolidated in the Mexican market and an element that has helped these operations seems to be everyday life.
Undoubtedly habits are the best triggers in the way it is consumed and a crucial element in this is the one that has to do with the importance that technological devices have acquired, to centralize all kinds of actions in a single device.
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