April 28, 2014 (Mon): According to the latest Adyen Global Mobile Payments Index, mobile web payments accounted for 20.2% (10.9% from smartphones and 9.3% from tablets) of all payment transactions on Adyen’s network worldwide in March more than 66% higher than March 2013.
“Now that the majority of merchants worldwide are engaging with consumers via the mobile web, the paradigm has shifted from, ‘Will people actually buy goods and services with their mobile devices?’ to ‘Fact: mobile commerce is a vital sales channel for both merchants and consumers and therefore deserves increased focus,” said Roelant Prins, Chief Commercial Officer at Adyen.