 With contactless cards growing in numbers and percentages of adoption, the number of payments by this method had increased significantly since the spending limit was raised, purchases made by card now surpassed those made by cash and now account for approximately one-third of all card transactions in countries like the U.K. Contactless payments have approached saturation point, being used in over 90%+ of purchases in Australia.Card issuers indicate they will increase the availability of contactless cards to consumers.With over 58 million contactless-enabled cards and over 147,000 terminals in use in the UK alone, Visa estimates there will be 300 million contactless cards issued in the US by the end of 2020, up from the predicted 100 million at the end of this year.