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Contactless, online or mobile: it’s hard to imagine our everyday lives without these new forms of payments. Over the four episodes of our podcast series ‘Paying Attention’ / ‘Un conseil, ça paie’, you’ll get to hear from various angles about how the new payment methods are changing our society.

Belgians pulled out their bank card or smartphone almost 2.3 billion times in 2022 to pay with Bancontact or Payconiq. Over a period of five years, that’s an impressive increase of 54.5%. And over a ten-year period, payments with Bancontact and Payconiq have increased from 1 billion to 2.3 billion.

The last week of November saw the 2 billionth electronic payment carried out this year using one of Bancontact Payconiq Company’s methods of payment. The company has never before exceeded the 2 billion mark for electronic payments in the same year. This figure illustrates the fact that an ever increasing numbers of Belgians are making the switch from cash to mobile and card payments. It also shows that payment solutions offered by a local player can be very successful on the Belgian market.

Dreaming is nice, but seeing a dream come true is even nicer. That is why Bancontact Payconiq Company is supporting the second edition of The Coolest Trooper Dream, an initiative by Trooper and KBC that allows associations and charities to submit their big dream and perhaps make it come true. Because together, we can make a difference.

Once again this year, the number of mobile payments made with Payconiq and Bancontact continues to climb steeply. Between January and August, Belgians pulled out their smartphones to pay for purchases 37% more often than in the same period last year. The growing popularity of making mobile payments via Payconiq at summer festivals partly explains this success. In August, we paid for the first time over 2 million times by scanning a QR code for our purchases made in-store and at festivals.