More Nordic consumers now prefer to make mobile payments

One in ten consumers in the Nordic countries now prefer to make mobile payments at the point of sale, double the number who prefer to use cash.

The figures also show that most Nordic consumers continue to identify card payments as their preferred option for face-to-face transactions, and that just over nine in ten often or sometimes use contactless payments.

The percentage of consumers who prefer to pay by cash in stores is around 5%, which is largely unchanged from last year. Apart from in Finland, however, where there has been a significant fall and the share represents a historic low, However, the per­centage in Norway and Sweden is rising slightly, even though the differences are small and not statistically significant.