Americans Ready for Mobile Payments: Visa

Maria Bruno-Britz reports for Bank Systems & Technology that Americans are ready to use their mobile phones for payments. Accroding to a recent survey of 800 consumers conducted by Visa USA in which "61 percent of participants between 25 to 34 years of age said they were interested in making purchases with their mobile phone." Bruno-Britz reports on comments Michele Janes, director of the product innovation and coordination team at Visa who says "over the past six to 12 months, we've seen a drastic increase in interest among [card] issuers in mobile payments. Several of our issuers are asking about this."