Consumers voice preferences, wishes in ways technology power payments

Mastercard Digital Payments Study 2017, conducted fifth year in a row in partnership with PRIME Research and Synthesio, analyzed more than 3.5 million conversations from the past year across several social media channels, focusing on media trends around digital wallets and artificial intelligence. Digital wallets continued to gain prominence in smartphones and laptops across the globe and dominated the discussion of new ways to pay, with the topic now topping 75 percent of conversations on social media.