Germany's digital wallet market tipped to reach $59B by 2030
Germany's prepaid card and digital wallet market is expected to record a meteoric growth spurt before the end of the decade, driven by a combination of factors.
According to a Research and Markets report, the industry will reach a valuation of $59.97 billion in 2029. The climb to a market capitalization of nearly $60 billion translates to a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.6%
The German market for prepaid cards will soar by 11.1% to reach $41.53 billion by the end of the year.
A community reading of the report highlights changing consumer behavior, an evolving digital payments sector, and corporate adoption of prepaid cards. The report notes that since COVID-19, German residents opted for contactless payment options, triggering a decline in cash transactions.
Furthermore, innovation in digital wallets offering broad functionalities for consumers is tipped to contribute to the surge in CAGR. Analysts are predicting a spike in prepaid card and digital wallet use across retail, hospitality, and e-commerce verticals in Germany.
A key driver of the growth will be the youth-focused payment solutions by German financial institutions. Meanwhile, institutions are leaning on prepaid cards for employee rewards and customer incentives.
The combination of youth-focused payment solutions and corporate adoption will support the push for a 9% CAGR by 2029. For the prepaid card segment, Best Buy, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) are tipped to hold the majority of the segment, but the possibility of innovative entrants to the space remains.
The report notes that the climb to a $59 billion valuation will be fraught with challenges, urging firms to invest in data privacy and security features.
'Companies that innovate, enhance security, and provide user-friendly prepaid solutions will be best positioned to capitalize on opportunities in Germany's evolving financial system,' read the report
Blockchain-based payments falter in Germany
Despite the surge in digital payments, German firms are recording slow growth with blockchain technology. A new report revealed that only 21% of financial services firms are keen on exploring blockchain-based solutions, while other sectors are posting even underwhelming figures. However, many German commercial banks are exploring digital bonds to improve their current offerings. While blockchain-based solutions falter, German fintech firms embrace artificial intelligence (AI) for its productivity and efficiency perks.
Saudi Arabia to record high growth in prepaid card market
Another report by Research and Markets has tipped Saudi Arabia's prepaid card market to clinch a $12.88 billion market capitalization in 2029, projecting a CAGR of 7.5% over four years.
Currently, Saudi Arabia's prepaid card market is valued at less than $10 billion, with the report highlighting a raft of factors behind the projected growth spurt.
For Saudi Arabia, government policies to stifle cash usage are the main driving factors behind the rise of prepaid card adoption. Saudi authorities have unveiled their Vision 2030 initiative, designed to improve financial inclusion in the Gulf nation, pledging to support digital payments.
'As Saudi Arabia progresses toward a cashless economy under Vision 2030, the prepaid card market is expected to play a crucial role in shaping the country's digital payments ecosystem,' read the report.
Alongside the government's initiative is the surge in fintech firms and traditional financial institutions rolling out digital payment solutions. Over the last four years, established financial institutions and emerging firms have unveiled new digital solutions, with the report tipping the trend to continue till the end of the decade.
Furthermore, integrating prepaid cards with digital wallets and other contactless payment systems is expected to trigger adoption. New solutions merging digital assets and prepaid cards are also tipped to contribute to the projected valuation.
E-commerce utilities across Saudi Arabia will play a role in rising prepaid card usage. The report cites the fluidity of purchases and the additional security perks offered by prepaid cards in retail use.
Corporate entities are also a significant force driving prepaid card use, leaning on the solution for customer rewards and employee incentives. Established banks like the Saudi National Bank, Alinma Bank, and Rita's Bank will hold a large market share by the end of the decade.
Steep fees plague Saudi Arabia's digital payment adoption
Saudi's road toward a $12 billion market capitalization for the prepaid market is not all smooth sailing. High fees threaten to derail the country's adoption plans for digital payment, with digital wallets being the hardest hit.
To sidestep the steep fees, Saudi Arabia is exploring using blockchain and central bank digital currencies (CBDC) for payment. Despite the mounting challenges, the Gulf nation is making significant strides in cross-border payments for its burgeoning remittance industry.
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Curl performance and hold considers how effectively curls are shaped and how long they last. Comfort and safety cover weight, size, cord length and features like automatic shut-off, heat-proof gloves or cool-touch tips to prevent burns. Build quality includes barrel coating durability and overall feel. When it comes to suitability for different hair types, I focus on temperature range – the wider, the better. If a curler is recommended for a specific hair texture or length, I make sure to test it on that type. From 15 tested curlers, only those creating lasting, frizz-free curls and working well on thicker hair made the selection. After testing, samples are returned to manufacturers, donated to charity or stored for future comparisons, ensuring recommendations remain current and fair. Why you can trust Telegraph Recommended Our thorough, real-world tests will always help you find the best product. 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Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet Current price: £99.99 Average price over last six months: £80 Price in the March 2025 Amazon Spring Sale: £54.99 Best budget tablet The Fire HD 8 launched last year as a lower-cost option in Amazon's own tablet range. In March's sale it dropped to £55, which is £25 less than usual. The Fire HD 8 doesn't have the most high-end spec, but this tablet was still good enough to score 7/10 in our recent review. It's lightweight, has decent battery life, and helps keep you connected with your chosen streaming, social media and communication apps, and was named the best budget tablet in our best tablets roundup. 2. 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She also said the dashboard lets you monitor screen time, approve app requests and block websites remotely from your phone, and she praised the included robust case with its built-in stand too. 5. Amazon Kindle Current price: £94.99 Average price over last six months: £94 Price in the March 2025 Amazon Spring Sale: £79.99 Best budget e-reader Amazon's entry-level Kindle dropped from £95 to £80 for Black Friday and again in the March sale. A similar hefty discount for Prime Day looks very likely. The Amazon Kindle delivers a superb reading experience, with access to an expansive library of e-books. It offers an incredibly portable design too, allowing you to catch up on your latest read whether you're on a sun lounger or squashed onto a packed tube. Reviewer Alan Martin said: 'While the costlier Paperwhite tops our list of the best Kindles, the Kindle 2024 offers 90 per cent of the features and that will be sufficient for most readers.' 6. Sony WH1000XM4 Current price: £189 Average price over last six months: £197 Price in the March 2025 Amazon Spring Sale: £177.99 Best noise-cancelling headphones Awarded Best Buy in our guide to the best noise-cancelling headphones, the Sony WH1000XM4 dropped to £178 in the March sale and in the past have been available for as little as £175, a good price for such an excellent pair of cans. They are not the brand's newest headphones. The current M6 version has additional noise-cancelling features, but these still have over 30 hours of battery with noise-cancelling turned on and they deliver a superb mix of performance and price. Reviewer Rob Waugh said: 'In the under-£200 bracket, these are undisputed sound quality champions, with breathtakingly realistic music where the vocals sound like you're in the room with the person.' Our favourite smart alarm clock, the Echo Spot dropped to £55 in the March sale and has been known to drop to £45. Perfect for a bedside table, the Echo Spot has a display to show you the time and other important information, like the weather. It also has built-in Alexa, allowing you to perform various functions from controlling your smart home devices to playing your favourite music or podcasts, and the design is small and compact so it doesn't attract too much unwanted attention. In our Echo Spot review, Alan Martin said it was a 'charming little smart speaker' with the 'sound quality good enough for the bedroom and Alexa a helpful assistant'. Ahead of the sale, Amazon has already dropped the price of its own Fire TV by about £30 but you might be advised to hold off until Prime Day before buying. It dropped by a further £30 during the Spring Sale. What do we think of the Amazon Fire TV? In our round-up of the best 4K TVs our television expert, Chris Hall, called it the best smart 4K TV, with its Alexa voice assistant integration and breadth of apps. Screen quality is superb for the price, too, with the TV adapting to the light levels in your room and tweaking the picture accordingly. 9. Ring Battery Video Doorbell Pro Current price: £199.99 Average price over last six months: £178 Price in the March 2025 Amazon Spring Sale: £129 Best Ring wireless doorbell If you're looking to improve your home security you can do a lot worse than the Ring Video Doorbell Pro. Loaded to the hilt with useful features, the Video Doorbell Pro is the only Ring camera with head-to-toe imaging, ideal for identifying packages left on your doorstep. It's currently more expensive than usual, so wait for the (probable) hefty Prime Day discount before buying. In our review of the best video doorbells, our reviewer Kulwinder Rai found that the fisheye camera offered plenty of detail and was particularly impressed with the Colour Night Vision, allowing him to identify nearby car number plates even in low light. Prime Day could be a smart time to pick up a previous-generation flagship smartphone for less. Samsung's Galaxy S24 has since been replaced by the Galazy S25 Ultra, but the differences were not huge. If you can pick last year's model up for the £659 we saw in the March sale, you will save a fortune. You get the same set of Galaxy AI tricks, including the ability to remove unwanted objects from the background of your pictures with just a tap and instant translations during calls. The display is immaculate, too, with true-to-life colour accuracy and a high level of brightness. Apple's top-of-the-range iPhone is already back down to its Spring Sale price. At just five per cent off, this doesn't meet our usual 10 per cent threshold, but keep an eye out: there's a small chance it could dip further on Prime Day. Even if not, a £25 discount is better than none. The iPhone 16 is undoubtedly expensive, but worth the outlay. You can read all about why our reviewer Britta O'Boyle rates it (including for its cameras and fast performance) in our best iPhone guide. Best predicted home deals 12. Hoover HL5 Current price: £169 Average price over last six months: £225 Price in the March 2025 Amazon Spring Sale: £149 Best lift-away vacuum for pet hair As any pet owner knows, it takes a special kind of vacuum cleaner to gracefully gather animal hairs, especially if you have a long-haired cat or dog. One of the best you can get is the Hoover HL5 Pets, which we consider one of the top vacuum cleaners for pet hair, earning a score of 9/10 during our hands-on testing. We regard this model as the best lift-away vacuum cleaner for pet hair, thanks especially to its impressive suction. The cleaner's HEPA 13 filter will help prep a feline-owning home for visitors who are allergic to cats, too. It was discounted by over £75 in Amazon's spring sale, so should be worth keeping a very close eye on. 13. GTech AirRAM MK2 K9 Current price: £224 Average price over last six months: £238 Price in the March 2025 Amazon Spring Sale: £183.99 Best pet vacuum cleaner for older users The GTech AirRAM dropped to £184 in the March sale, its lowest price ever. It's our top pick for older users in our best pet vacuum cleaners guide thanks to its lightweight build and ease of use. When I reviewed it, I said: 'Although the AirRAM K9 is far less powerful than the other vacuums we tried, the suction is actually pretty great. The large, rectangular head leaves clear, broad stripes where it's been, like a proper floor cleaner should.' 14. Philips 5000 Series 9L NA555/09 Dual Basket Steam Air Fryer Current price: £189.99 Average price over last six months: £211 Price in the March 2025 Amazon Spring Sale: £169.99 Best dual air fryer for steaming The Philips 5000 Series 9L NA555/09 Dual Basket Steam Air Fryer dipped to a record low £169.99 in the March sale, which is a saving of £40 on the average price. When we reviewed it for our best air fryer guide, we loved the steam function and the option to cook both frozen and fresh fries. Reviewer Rebecca Shepherd said the Philips 5000 Series air fried food brilliantly and 'each test resulted in dishes that were golden brown, deliciously crisp and nowhere near dry'. 15. De'Longhi Rivelia Automatic Current price: £649 Average price over last six months: £714 Price in the March 2025 Amazon Spring Sale: £599.99 Best bean-to-cup coffee machine Our Best Buy in our best bean-to-cup coffee machine guide dropped to its lowest ever price in the Spring event, about £150 less than it's currently on sale for. It offers a fantastic range of coffee options, is very easy to use and has a compact footprint. Reviewer Anna Tobin said in her De'Longhi Rivelia Automatic review: 'When tested against other bean-to-cup coffee machines the De'Longhi Rivelia came out as our favourite overall because it produces several different types of great-tasting coffee and it's super simple to operate and pretty easy to keep clean'. 16. Ninja Extended Life 20cm Ceramic Non-Stick Frying Pan Current price: £44.55 Average price over last six months: £49 Price in the March 2025 Amazon Spring Sale: £43.99 Best ceramic frying pan Unfortunately, we can't guarantee Prime Day savings on the HexClad frying pan, which we consider the best frying pan you can buy. However, the Ninja Extended Life 20cm Ceramic Non-Stick Frying Pan was discounted by 20 per cent in the Spring sale and could see similar savings on Prime Day. Ninja cookware has a lot of buzz around it, but it lived up to its reputation when our writer Tomé Morrissy-Swan tried it out. He said: 'It has a sturdy feel for such a small frying pan, although it isn't heavy. The ceramic non-stick surface is super slick. Fried eggs and omelettes cooked without oil slid out of the pan straight onto my toast.' 17. Cuisinart One Cup Grind And Brew Coffee Machine Current price: £132.99 Average price over last six months: £141 Price in the March 2025 Amazon Spring Sale: £107.98 Best budget coffee machine The current price is about average for this compact bean-to-cup machine, which is a good reason to hold off buying for a little while. The March sale saw its price slashed by £33. Our coffee expert Silvana Franco was impressed with this affordable machine, naming it the best budget-friendly option in her best coffee machines review round-up. It's not going to give you barista-quality coffee or fancy features such as grind size adjustment, but what you do get is an easy way to make classic, filter-style black coffee at home. 18. Breville Iced Coffee Maker Current price: £32.99 Average price over last six months: £31 Price in the March 2025 Amazon Spring Sale: £24.99 Best iced coffee maker We named this model the best iced coffee maker in our test of the best coffee machines. You use it pretty much like a filter coffee maker, and place a cup with ice beneath the coffee as it pours out (possibly squirting in a syrup for added flavour), and is an easy-to-use budget-friendly option. It's never expensive, but was reduced by 20 per cent in the March sale, which is about as good a genuine discount as you can get in Amazon sales. 19. Bissell Revolution HydroSteam Current price: £399 Average price over last six months: £359 Price in the March 2025 Amazon Spring Sale: £299 Best carpet cleaner overall The March discount on the Bissell Revolution HydroSteam brought the top-performing product from our best carpet cleaners round-up down to its lowest price ever, at £299. Bissell's carpet cleaner is equipped with innovative steam cleaning tech that impressed our reviewer Kulwinder Rai. 'This machine categorically outperforms every other consumer-grade wet carpet cleaner I've tested, which is no mean feat,' he said. 'Even deeply embedded, dried-in blood and wine stains succumbed to its ministrations, once given a couple of passes of pure steam pre-treatment.' Best predicted fitness and beauty deals 20. Panasonic ES-EY90-A511 Wet and Dry Epilator Current price: £199.99 Average price over last six months: £125 Price in the March 2025 Amazon Spring Sale: £99.99 Best epilator overall The Panasonic ES-EY90-A511 Wet and Dry Epilator was crowned Best Buy in our best epilator guide and saw a very decent discount of £25 in the Spring sale. Reviewer Annabel Fenwick Elliott said: 'What a fantastic piece of kit. Not only was this the most efficient model for epilation, thanks to its somewhat-scary looking, combine harvester-esque double-row of tweezer discs, it also comes with an impressive array of extra accessories – including, most importantly, a small head that you can use on areas like the chin. This also makes it the best epilator for the face, and even toes.' 21. Waterpik Cordless Advanced Water Flosser Current price: £80.33 Average price over last six months: £90 Price in the March 2025 Amazon Spring Sale: £69.99 Best water flosser We named the Waterpik Cordless Advanced Water Flosser the Best Buy in our best water flosser guide, so we were thrilled to see it reduced to £70 both on Black Friday and in the Amazon Spring sale. It's simple to use, packs away neatly and it offers three intensity modes. Reviewer Rebecca Astill said she thought this water flosser was 'almost perfect' when she reviewed it. 'I'd recommend starting out on the low mode as water flossing is quite a strange sensation if you haven't tried it before. I've built my way up and now favour the high mode and I've really noticed a difference in my gum line and overall mouth health.' Similar to the far more expensive Oral-B iO10 but costing much less, the iO3 has a handy brush head replacement reminder and a built-in pressure sensor, with the toothbrush flashing either red or green depending on how hard you might be pressing when brushing. Our reviewer, Rebecca Astill, said: 'The surprisingly quiet sonic vibrations do provide a thorough clean of the mouth, reaching all the hard to reach corners and crevices.' It's already reduced by £44 from its fairly steep average price, but we predict the price on Prime Day could fall even lower, as it did in the Spring sale. * The research was conducted by the Telegraph Contributors panel with 152 Telegraph readers, aged 18+ in the UK between 18.06.2025-23.06.2025. The panel is managed by ResearchBods, an independent research agency
