Just checked out Safaricom's results presentation for the first half-year 2009-2010, and found some interesting slides on M-PESA: Fascinating results … especially as Safaricom were not the instigators of M-PESA. At the start, they could not commit to a risky project of this nature with resources and so Vodafone brought in a…
Just stumbled across the website Lendify – a tracking system for lending on Zopa UK, the P2P social lending service. Here's the chart for the last 28 days (doubleclick to enlarge): And here are the numbers: Wed 23rd DecemberTotal Offered £1,784,930 (+£178,090) 7 Day Demand £3,677,500 (+£150,400) Avg Lender Rate 11.1% (-0.08%) Tue 22nd DecemberTotal…
I was just writing a paragraph about mobile for a client's report, when I realised what I had written: This year has seen dramatic innovations in mobile usage, such as those of the Bank of America in the USA. According to Doug Brown, SVP at Bank of America responsible for their mobile banking channel, they…
Just received a press release from the UK Payments Council that makes interesting reading. The figures show that spending by card, cheque, cash and automated payments over the last six years has changed little, beyond the usual variance to consumers' payment habits, despite the difficult economic conditions. The latest quarterly figures reveal that: The number…
Just received a press release from the UK Payments Council that makes interesting reading. The figures show that spending by card, cheque, cash and automated payments over the last six years has changed little, beyond the usual variance to consumers' payment habits, despite the difficult economic conditions. The latest quarterly figures reveal that: The number…
Just received a press release from the UK Payments Council that makes interesting reading. The figures show that spending by card, cheque, cash and automated payments over the last six years has changed little, beyond the usual variance to consumers' payment habits, despite the difficult economic conditions. The latest quarterly figures reveal that: The number…
For a while now Monitise, the mobile payments processing firm, has been researching views on the future of banking with the Future Foundation, part of Experian. Their objective is to find out how our relationship with money is changing and to understand how the culture of money will develop over the next few years. The…
For a while now Monitise, the mobile payments processing firm, has been researching views on the future of banking with the Future Foundation, part of Experian. Their objective is to find out how our relationship with money is changing and to understand how the culture of money will develop over the next few years. The…
For a while now Monitise, the mobile payments processing firm, has been researching views on the future of banking with the Future Foundation, part of Experian. Their objective is to find out how our relationship with money is changing and to understand how the culture of money will develop over the next few years. The…
A cheque processing conference sounds pretty dull these days, especially as cheques are on their way out across most economies. However, a cheque processing conference celebrating 350 years since the oldest surviving cheque was written? No, not that boring. In fact, as I’m a sucker for numbers and facts, the annual conference of the Cheque…
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