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IN BRIEF: Brazil m-payments double in 2015

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The number of Brazilians making purchases through their smartphones doubled in 2015, according to MercadoLibre.

The auction site's e-payment platform, Mercado Pago, and Ipsos carried out a survey in which 45% of interviewees made some type of payment via smartphones, compared with 21% in 2014.

The most common purchases involved clothes and accessories (59%), mobile phones (56%), electronics (49%) and household bills (45%).

Ipsos interviewed 450 people for the survey.

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