Payments Monitor

Good morning, welcome to Payments Monitor, my name is Faisal Khan, today is the 28th of October 2015, some stories for today are: TOP STORIES With the number of increasing innovative payment methods like Apple Pay and Samsung Pay, it should come as no surprise that Juniper Research’s new study predicts a huge increase in biometrically authenticated transactions. Biometric payments are cited to go up to nearly 5bn by 2019, up from less than 130 million this year. Speaking of Apple Pay, there’s good news for people in Canada and Australia. Apple Pay will be available in these countries later this year thanks to a recent tie-in with Amex. While Hong Kong, Singapore and Spain will be able to use Apple Pay in 2016. In the world of Cryptocurrencies, Nasdaq’s new blockchain-enabled platform has signed up its first batch of clients. The operator plans to use distributed ledger technology for a host of other tasks and it will be interesting to follow its development. Meanwhile, Russia's Ministry of Finance has