Spain Real Time Payments Market Size (2024 - 2029)

Spain Real-Time Payments Market Analysis

Spain's real-time payments market is expected to register a CAGR of 16.8% during the period 2022-2027. The primary factors driving the market's growth are the increasing smartphone penetration, growing participation from banks and financial institutions, and government initiatives, among others.

• The payment system in Spain is still heavily dominated by debit and credit cards, which account for most of the transactions in the country. However, the scenario is continuously changing after the pandemic, and mobile wallets, digital payments, and alternative payments such as real-time payments are gaining ground in the Spain payments market.
• Spain's real-time payment market is growing rapidly, owing to the wildly successful Bizum app. Launched in 2016 and built on SCT Inst, Bizum is a payment service launched by Spanish banks in 2016 to allow users to conduct Person-to-Person (P2P) payments through a smartphone. The Bizum mobile wallet has attracted millions of customers and has regularly added features beyond its original P2P functions.
• A few factors that boosted the rapid adoption of real-time payments, such as the modern Bizum user interface replicating social networks. Another is a steady stream of use cases that take real-time payments deeper into consumers' lives. These include support for donations to NGOs, eCommerce payments launched in 2019 and refunds, and even real-time settlement of national lottery prizes. Its ease of use is also boosted by widely available QR-code initiation adopted at more than 11,000 retail stores.
• Moreover, banks and e-commerce platforms have started offering real-time payment services such as Buy Now Pay Later options like Klarna and Afterpay to capture the rapidly growing segment and appeal to new users. With no interest charged for on-time payments by many BNPL platforms, people without credit cards can make purchases from a business and pay in installments. BNPL lets companies maintain better checkout rates and customer retention. This is further boosting the region's real-time payments market growth.
• The COVID-19 pandemic has boosted the use of new fast and secure payment technologies, such as real-time payments. However, the volume of transactions has fallen during periods of lockdown or tighter restrictions, but the use of instant money payment or transfer apps has also increased. In Spain, the use of Bizum stands out during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Spain Real-Time Payments Industry Segmentation

Real time payments or instant payments refer to payment rails (platforms or networks via which payments are made) that share a few characteristics, such as they are real-time and initiate, clear, and settle in a matter of seconds. Real-time payment payments are ideally available 24x7x365, meaning they are always online and available for transfer.

The Spain Real Time Payments Market is segmented by Payment Type (P2P, P2B).