Research and Markets: 2015 European Contactless Card Payments Landscape Featuring American Express, Cartes Bancaires, MasterCard & Visa Europe

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/kv7vkf/2015_european) has announced the addition of the "2015 European Contactless Card Payments Landscape" report to their offering.

This latest research report, 2015 European Contactless Card Payments Landscape seeks to provide a better understanding of the European contactless card payment landscape by examining a number of critical factors, including the number of Visa, MasterCard, and American Express branded contactless debit and credit cards available across Europe, the number of contactless-enabled point-of-sale (POS) terminals, and more specifically developments in leading European contactless payment markets like the United Kingdom. In addition, this report considers the implications for the development of European mobile payment systems based on the growing popularity of contactless payment cards.

Contactless payments have dominated European payments headlines for the better part of a year now and for good reason. A technology that has been sitting in plain sight has finally come good and consumers across Europe (but mainly in a few countries) are increasingly using their newly issued contactless card for more and more of their general spending, comments Tristan Hugo-Webb, author of the report.

Highlights of the report include:

- Overview of contactless payment technology and the different advantages it brings to different sections of the payments value chain

- Estimates of the number of contactless-enabled debit and credit cards cobranded by Visa, MasterCard, and American Express across Europe between 2011 and 2015

- Estimates of the number of contactless-enabled POS terminals able to accept at least Visa and MasterCard across Europe between 2011 and 2015

Key Topics Covered:

1. Executive Summary

2. Introduction

3. Acceptance or Issuance?

4. Contactless Has Value for All Payment Chain Participants

5. The European Contactless Payment Landscape

- Which Card Markets Constitute Europe?

- Key Assumptions

6. The European Contactless Card Landscape: Network Statistics

- Visa Europe

- MasterCard

- American Express

- Other Networks

7. The European Contactless Card Landscape: Country Breakdown

- Case Study: The U.K.

8. The European Contactless Terminal Landscape: Network Statistics

9. The European Contactless Terminal Landscape: Country Breakdown

10. Are Contactless Cards the Steppingstone to Mobile Payments?

11. Conclusions

Companies Mentioned:

- American Express

- Cartes Bancaires

- MasterCard

- Visa Europe

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