Monday, January 13, 2020

U.S. Banks Are Terrified of Chinese Payment Apps

If mobile payment apps became as popular in the U.S. as they are in China, banks would lose a projected $43 billion in revenue annually. Bloomberg QuickTake explains how cheap and easy payments by phone are threatening one of the banking industry's most profitable businesses.




3 comments:

Unknown said...

A relatively easy way of doing this would be through Post Office Banking.

USA - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Savings_System
UK - https://www.postoffice.co.uk/banking
India - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_Post_Payments_Bank

Andrew Anderson said...

While local Post Offices would make convenient branch locations, all citizens should be allowed inherently risk-free accounts of their own at the Central Bank itself and all other privileges for private depository institutions abolished too.

Peter Pan said...

We already have no fee banking in Canada.