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Wirecard supports Mammut's U.S. expansion not recommend using the service.
"The influx of new players makes
Wirecard AG expanded its relationship with Swiss mountaineering brand the future of the Big Three uncer-
Mammut to process payments for Mammut's U.S. ecommerce business, tain," said Jaclyn Holmes, Director
offering online customers access to the major U.S. card brands, with more of Payment Insights at Auriemma.
options in the pipeline. Mammut turned to Wirecard in 2014 for multichan- "Being first to market hasn’t given
nel payment processing, and since then, Wirecard has served Mammut's core Apple, Google, or Samsung a leg
markets of Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the U.K. up on mobile payment newcomers."

RESEARCH Juniper predicts smart-toy
sales will soar
Amazon reveals SMB seller data A Juniper Research white paper
titled 3 Smart Toy Vendors Racing
Amazon's inaugural Small Business Impact Report offers new details about Ahead predicted smart toys will
the millions of small and midsize businesses (SMBs) that market goods and represent an $18 billion hardware
services on Amazon. According to the report, SMBs selling on Amazon come and software market by 2023, up
from all 50 U.S. states and over 230 countries, more than 20,000 SMBs world- from $6 billion projected this year.
wide surpassed $1 million apiece in sales in 2017, and they are estimated to Primary drivers cited include the
have created more than 900,000 jobs worldwide. To view the report, visit rising popularity of smartphone-
http://aboutamazon.com/supporting-small-businesses.
connected toys and related in-app
Auriemma surveys mobile payment users purchases, which are on track to
grow 69 percent annually over the
Auriemma Consulting Group's Q1-2018 Mobile Pay Tracker revealed that com- next five years. To view the report,
bined usage of Apple Pay, Google Pay and Samsung Pay grew to 34 percent, visit www.juniperresearch.com/doc-
up 5 percent from Q1 2017. Yet, 42 percent of mobile pay users surveyed would ument-library/white-papers/3-smart-
toy-vendors-racing-ahead-in-2018.
SecurityMetrics offers
GDPR guidance
To address the European Union's
May 25, 2018, General Data
Protection Regulation (GDPR)
enforcement date, SecurityMetrics
published the white paper GDPR
101: What You Need to Know. The
paper covers how GDPR compliance
impacts you, GDPR requirements
and best practices, and how to pre-
pare for business after enforcement.
It is available for free download at
https://info.securitymetrics.com/gdpr-
101-wp?utm_source=Email&utm_
medium=Email.

U.S. Payments Forum
releases EMV data

The U.S. Payments Forum Spring
2018 Market Snapshot offered an
encouraging update on the U.S.
migration to EMV (Europay,
Mastercard and Visa). According to
the report, 96 percent of Visa pay-
ment volume at the point-of-sale is
now conducted using chip-enabled
cards, 59 percent of U.S. POS loca-
tions currently accept chip cards,

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