A short tour of the numbers behind modern payments, for anyone working on checkout, payment security or customer experience. Around 80 million card transactions are made every hour worldwide, US consumers spend an average of $3,389.03 online each year, and peak events push volumes to extremes — 15,000 online transactions per second during the 2024 Super Bowl. The infographic sets out the scale at which payment systems now operate and, by implication, the scale at which any weakness in them is exposed.
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