One of our partners at the Financial Services Club is CFIR, the Copenhagen Finance IT Region. CFIR is an EU-funded networking group in Denmark who produce research and events around the developments in Danish banking and payments. Over the past year, CFIR has worked with the Copenhagen Business School, IBM, Danske Bank, NETS, the Innovation…
One of our partners at the Financial Services Club is CFIR, the Copenhagen Finance IT Region. CFIR is an EU-funded networking group in Denmark who produce research and events around the developments in Danish banking and payments. Over the past year, CFIR has worked with the Copenhagen Business School, IBM, Danske Bank, NETS, the Innovation…
I’ve been thinking about the new providers of bank services a lot lately. The guys who are innovating using mobile. The Breeze’s of this world from StanChart, the mBank’s, the Simple’s and more. One thing that is common to all is the turnaround of thinking. All of them work with a different view of the…
The more I think about mobile as an authentication tool, the more attractive it becomes. First you can geolocate customers using mobile. XYVerify does this using telco masts, rather than mobile devices, as it can then use an independent verification mechanism to determine whether you really have you phone with you. This is the sort…
It’s interesting talking with banks about mobile, and after hosting a meeting about the impact of mobile payments and banking on European banks this week, there is a homogeneity to the dialogue. The core is that everyone believes mobile banking and payments is taking over as the core essence of reach with the digitally native…
It’s getting crowded out there in the mobile payments space. After years of inactivity, everyone’s woken up to the opportunities out there, not the least PayPal. PayPal did nothing in mobile through the 2000s, and I worried they were missing a huge opportunity to grow their business. In fact, being close to the UK PayPal…
It’s getting crowded out there in the mobile payments space. After years of inactivity, everyone’s woken up to the opportunities out there, not the least PayPal. PayPal did nothing in mobile through the 2000s, and I worried they were missing a huge opportunity to grow their business. In fact, being close to the UK PayPal…
A really interesting discussion with a group of banking people this week about the impact of mobile and tablet computing on the banking world. I call this change the networked consumer, and it's a phrase that is meant to wrap up the whole discussion of the mobile internet and how it is affecting consumers attitudes…
I just got a copy of the Payments Council’s UK Payments Markets 2013 Report, and it makes fascinating reading about a developed economy’s changing payments habits. Here are the headlines: Consumer card use will rise by 75% from nearly 10 billion payments in 2012 to nearly 17 billion in 2022, driven primarily by increased debit…
I just got a copy of the Payments Council’s UK Payments Markets 2013 Report, and it makes fascinating reading about a developed economy’s changing payments habits. Here are the headlines: Consumer card use will rise by 75% from nearly 10 billion payments in 2012 to nearly 17 billion in 2022, driven primarily by increased debit…
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