Are Person-to-Person Payments about to Catch on?

Published: April 26, 2017, 7 a.m.

b'Right now, we make an average of 54 person-to-person payments every year. If you consider the number of times you go to buy a cup of coffee in the morning or make a trip to the grocery store, 54 payments doesn\\u2019t seem like much. Why do we make so few person-to-person payments? If you think about how inconvenient a person-to-person payment is compared to just walking into a store and swiping your card, it quickly becomes evident why there\\u2019s such a huge gap. Jamie Pearson discusses.'