Happy November, folks! Halloween has passed, frights are out, cornucopias are in and it’s time once again for PYMNTS 11.
Before you break out your buckled hats and hand-painted turkeys, here are 11 things to know for the coming weekend:
330 million | Annual shipments of contactless payment card units projected for the U.S. in 2020.
$1 billion | Value holiday sales expect to hit, per day, on 57 of the 61 holiday shopping days. (Happy holidays, indeed.)
50 terabytes | The amount of data former NSA contractor Harold Thomas Martin III kept in his home.
$1,000 | The price of a bot army.
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20 | Number of people the IRS recently indicted over IRS scams.
$4 billion | What Snapchat aims to raise in IPO in the first quarter of 2017.
$65,000 | Cash one San Diego octogenarian lost after falling victim to the “Grandma Scam.”
63% | Percentage of millennials without credit cards (though not for lack of trying).
$24.29 billion | The value the global ATM market is expected to reach by 2022.
$1,000 | What folks are handing over, per unit, for Zcash — the newcomer on the virtual currency scene.
$7.5 billion | Anticipated insurance payments to cover Hurricane Matthew claims.
