It's an understatement to say that casinos have been slow to adapt to mobile technology. Consumers use smartphones to find a ride, order groceries and coordinate their business and social lives; however, stepping inside a casino, is almost like travelling back in time to 2005. Want to play a game of blackjack or try your luck on your favorite slot machine? You'll have to use cash. Loyalty rewards are only earned by using a physical player card, and the most common marketing offers are distributed via direct mail.

The mobile industry is constantly evolving -- what was a groundbreaking technology yesterday may be a forgotten thing of the past today. That's why you need to continuously observe the mobile market so that you don't miss the opportunity for business growth. But you can't just analyse what's trending right now, that would be too easy. The mobile app market is changing at break-neck speed, so if you want to reach a much wider audience, improve user retention and get more app downloads, you need to predict future trends. That's what I'm here to help with.

Consumers have come to expect personalization in their shopping experiences, whether using online marketplaces such as Amazon and Etsy or mobile apps such as Gilt or Poshmark. Product recommendations, informed by purchase histories and preferred payment methods, are becoming a standard aspect of digital checkout experiences. Online content subscription purchasing experiences are far different from that ideal in practice, however. Magazines, newspapers, television networks and other content providers typically offer more uniform interfaces that may not consider their customers' geographies, content or payment preferences. The standard approach to conversion that has been representative of the digital content ecosystem -- the paywall -- could be on its way to becoming a thing of the past, according to Trevor Kaufman, CEO of New York City-headquartered Software-as-a-Service firm Piano.io,

Economics, money, and the way we make payments have undergone several changes since the time of the Stone Age. In a sense all these are key indicators of our progress as a species. The primitive methods indicated our primitive way of living. Similarly, the current payment methods powered by cutting-edge technology boast our technological achievements of today. Digitization of payments was a huge jump towards the goal to achieve an easy, convenient, fast, and secure payment method.

AI has taken some steps into banking, but it also poised to transform how banks learn from and interact with customers. Financial services will lead the charge in the implementation of AI. Africa's mobile phone market has expanded to become larger than either the EU or the United States with some 650 million subscribers (2016 data). At the same time, Internet bandwidth has grown 20-fold as hundreds of thousands of kilometres of new cables have been laid across the continent to serve an increasing number of its 1.2 billion Africans. Augmented experience on how to recommend how much to spend and on what.

AI has taken some steps into banking, but it also poised to transform how banks learn from and interact with customers. Financial services will lead the charge in the implementation of AI. Africa's mobile phone market has expanded to become larger than either the EU or the United States with some 65...

Moreover, terms like Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning came into the fray, and are all set to become the new normal. It's been a whirlwind of a year for Indian e-commerce! So, I decided to sum up the performance of the Indian e-commerce industry in 2017. The cash-crunch caused by demonetization forced a surge in cashless methods like mobile wallets, debit/credit cards and net banking. According to Business Insider, wallet payments forerunner PayTm witnessed transactions worth 120 crore per day only 12 days post demonetization.

The bright lights of Las Vegas have gone out on Money20/20 for another year. As always, the event brought together the biggest names in payments and provided unprecedented insight into the future of financial services. So, after four days of discussions and demonstrations, what were the three big trends from this year's installment? This was the year that artificial intelligence (AI) arguably overtook blockchain as the biggest buzzword in payments and became the latest mega-trend to revolutionize the industry. AI has the potential to profoundly impact all areas of payments and financial services delivery, and indeed already is in some areas.

AI has taken some steps into banking, but it also poised to transform how banks learn from and interact with customers. Financial services will lead the charge in the implementation of AI. Africa's mobile phone market has expanded to become larger than either the EU or the United States with some 650 million subscribers (2016 data). At the same time, Internet bandwidth has grown 20-fold as hundreds of thousands of kilometres of new cables have been laid across the continent to serve an increasing number of its 1.2 billion Africans. Augmented experience on how to recommend how much to spend and on what.

AI has taken some steps into banking, but it also poised to transform how banks learn from and interact with customers. Financial services will lead the charge in the implementation of AI. Africa's mobile phone market has expanded to become larger than either the EU or the United States with some 650 million subscribers (2016 data). At the same time, Internet bandwidth has grown 20-fold as hundreds of thousands of kilometres of new cables have been laid across the continent to serve an increasing number of its 1.2 billion Africans. Augmented experience on how to recommend how much to spend and on what.