Blockchain, IoT and More: Five Major Trends in Payments in 2017
Jeremy King, the international director of PCI Security Standards Council, laid out five major trends in payments in 2017 to look out for. Four of the five trends revealed by King involved Blockchain technology, with Internet of Things (IoT), Blockchain payments, tokenization and encryption included as major trends for next year. Tokenization, Encryption, Blockchain Payments, IoT. According to King, five major trends will dominate the payment industry in 2017. The five trends are IoT, Blockchain, tokenization, encryption and mobile payments, all of which seems to involve Blockchain....
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