Cast your mind back to Chapter 1 – remember where we talked about the main participants in an online transaction? One of those is the payment handler: you know this better as Google Pay, or perhaps Apple Pay. With their combined resources, I doubt there will be many of you who won’t have seen at least one of these somewhere – either online or at your local store.
With enormous resources at their disposal, it’s easy to understand how they have become so recognizable and why many will immediately mention their names if they were asked for the top two or three companies ...