Megatrends
The most influential Megatrends set to shape the world through 2030, identified by Euromonitor International, help businesses better anticipate market developments and lead change for their industries.
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Consumer credit and gross lending is growing across the world, with credit cards leading the way. While companies open up to credit cards, the challenge will be to reach markets that mainly use cash.
While card and electronic payments are increasing in use, total paper value is expected to decline by USD392 billion over 2017-2022 in absolute value terms. With the other functions increasing significantly, this amounts to an eight percentage point reduction in share of total consumer payment value. Eastern Europe has the highest expected CAGR for card payments over the forecast period with 10%. This is partly attributed to the current low base of card adoption but also due to government policy incentivising paper alternatives. Other paper payment value is expected to have the greatest decline in value with a negative 4.7% CAGR expected over the forecast period.
Card payment value continued to accelerate from 2016 to 2017 with an increase of USD1.4 trillion. The 5.8% growth of card value from 2016 to 2017 was an improvement from the previous period of 4.3% but is expected to further moderate over the forecast period. The lower growth is in part attributed to slower expected card growth in the world’s largest market by total payment value, China. Growth is expected to exceed the growth of consumer payments overall due to cash conversion efforts. However, with consistent growth over the forecast period total card payment value is projected to reach USD32.1 trillion by 2022. This expected growth represents more than a doubling of global payment value from 2012.