Investigating the Impact of Contactless Payment Technologies on the Students’ adoption at the University of Bahrain

The Kingdom of Bahrain witnessed many advancements in the FinTech domain recently. One of these obvious advancements is the introduction of few contactless payment software and technologies. Within the first two quarters of 2018, several institutions introduced contactless payment mobile apps such as BenefitPay, bWallet, VIVA Cash and MaxWallet. These mobile apps received vast adoption rate in a relatively short period of time by the citizens in the Kingdom. This study is conducted to investigate the impacts of contactless payment technologies on the students of University of Bahrain. The study focusses on investigating the adoption factors of contactless payment technologies and their impact on the willingness of students to adopt these technologies. For the operationalization of this study a modified version of Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) is proposed and tested through a survey, while the statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) is used for data analysis.