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Future-Proofing Payments
Talk About Payments Webinar
June 28, 2018

Douglas King
Payments Risk Expert
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

The views expressed in this presentation are those of the presenters and do not necessarily reflect
the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta or the Federal Reserve System.
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Retail Payment Risk Forum’s Mission
Detect and identify, assist and encourage…
 Identify: What?
 Risk, in existing and emerging retail payments

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 Researching products, services, and systems
 Collaborating with industry
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Agenda
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A look back at debit before looking ahead
Mobile phones as disruptors
Is mobile the future of payments?
Questions & discussion

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Is Predicting the Future for Fools?

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Technology Makes Predictions Even Tougher!

My grandmother could have never imagined today’s book experience.
Mid-1980s

November 2007

Early 1990s

July 1995

Today

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Timeline of Debit: Pre-2000
Bank of
Delaware kicks
off debit card
pilot program.

Angelo’s and Starmarket
(Massachusetts-based
grocers) install POS debit
systems.

City National Bank
(Columbus, OH)
first markets a
card with a debit
function.

Testing of POS debit
at many of the large
gas station and
supermarket
chains.

Debit terminal
installations begin
rapid growth.

Signature (off-line)
debit begins to
prosper as banks
add Visa and
MasterCard to their
ATM cards.
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Debit’s Value Proposition: Issuance

Source: A Guide to the ATM and Debit Card Industry–2006 Update, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, 2006

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Debit’s Value Proposition: Acceptance

Source: A Guide to the ATM and Debit Card Industry–2006 Update, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, 2006

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Debit’s Rise to Prominence Started Very Slowly
But then skyrocketed over the past 18 years!
Debit Transactions as a % of Noncash Payment Transactions

48%

50%

Thirty-four years after
the Bank of Delaware’s
debit card pilot, debit
transactions finally
achieved more than 10
percent of all noncash
payments.

26%

30%

38%

35%

40%

10%

0%

2%
1995

11%

19%

20%

2000

2003

2006

2009

2012

2015

Sources: For 1995: The Use of Checks and Other Noncash Payment Instruments in the United States, Federal Reserve Bulletin, August 2002. Other
years: Federal Reserve Payment Studies (various years).

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The Mobile Phone Has Been Transformative
Especially for this baseball fan!

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Mobile Phones Are Rapidly Displacing Digital
Cameras
Digital Camera Shipments
(Millions)

25.0

35.4

62.8

79.0

121.5

115.5

98.1

24.2

0

As the phone’s picturetaking capabilities have
improved, digital
camera shipments have
plummeted.

43.4

20

64.8

40

43.4

60

59.8

80

105.9

100

100.4

120

119.8

iPhone introduced

140

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Source: CIPA (Camera & Imaging Products Association).

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And the Same Is True for MP3 Players
Apple iPod Unit Sales
(Millions)

26.4
14.4

22.5

20

2003

4.4

0.4

2002

0.9

10
0

Apple’s own MP3
player, the iPod, was
only in the market for 12
years before being
discontinued.

35.2

2009

39.4

30

42.6
2008

40

50.3

54.1

51.6

50

54.8

iPhone introduced

60

2004

2005

2006

2007

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

Source: Apple (via Business Insider)

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But What About Mobile Payments at the POS?
Far from transformative, but still early

Source: Why Americans aren’t using their phones to make payments in
stores, Yahoo Finance, May 25, 2018

“Though BI Intelligence projects that US
in-store mobile payments volume will
quintuple in the next five years, usage is
consistently lagging below
expectations, with estimates for 2019
falling far below what we expected
just two years ago.”

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Mobile Payments Timeline
2011

QR Codes

2012

NFC

2013

2014

NFC

2015

2016

NFC + MST

QR Codes

2017

NFC

NFC
NFC

Phone # + PIN
QR Codes

QR Codes

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Diving Deeper Into Mobile Pay Usage

Source: Pymnts.com/Infoscout

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The Transformation in China Has Been Swift!

Source: “Lessons from a mobile payments revolution,” American Banker, May 2018

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What Will It Take To Catch On in The U.S.?

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So Is Mobile at the POS the Future?

RTP

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Questions & Discussion
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For more information:
Douglas King
douglas.a.king@atl.frb.org

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