The majority of banks is optimistic regarding the development of this system. The "Bank "St. Petersburg" and "Tinkoff Bank" have a positive attitude towards Apple Pay. According to the forecast of the "Bank "St. Petersburg" representatives, in the coming year, about 70% of the payments will be made using contactless technologies. The "Tinkoff Bank" is also supports the new system - most of the clients of the financial institution were waiting for her for a long time.
Many users of smartphones and Apple Pay actively discuss this in social networks, provide arguments for and against. Most of them support the technology. The use of the system surprises people around, and sometimes causes their discontent, but users of Apple Pay like it and they will continue using it.
According to the current statistics, next year, approximately 20% of the owners of relevant smartphones will use Apple Pay. Some reports indicate that the number of the Apple smartphones with contactless payment function, sold in Russia, does not exceed 1.5 million. As a result, about 300 thousand users will deal with this development. Compared with the number of cardholders in the country (about 100 million people), payments via Apple Pay are a small part of all of the transactions.
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