Future of Payments

Innovation in the payments sector is set to make cash and card look as old fashioned as bartering with livestock, and financial companies are scrambling to keep up. The Future of Payments report, published in The Times, details the sluggish progress of open banking, while China sprints ahead with highly developed mobile payment systems. From blockchain to biometrics, it explores the technological advances changing the face of how we pay, alongside comment on lingering gender inequality in the financial sector and an infographic on the battle for digital wallets