Amex sees improvement from billings

What to read today: US Mobile Wallets in 2020 and Beyond: An overall uptick in US consumer time spent on smartphones is trickling down to payments and commerce and driving volume in three core categories: mobile commerce (m-commerce), mobile peer-to-peer (P2P) payments, and mobile proximity payments. This report sizes the mobile payments market and identifies what''s driving growth in these key areas..

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