It’s the Mobile World Congress week this week, so everyone’s talking about mobile. In our space, the big announcements came from MasterCard and Visa. MasterCard launched a digital wallet in a joint venture with mFoundry, whilst Visa announced an NFC partnership with Samsung. MasterCard’s digital wallet is called MasterPass. In effect, it is the launch of…
It’s the Mobile World Congress week this week, so everyone’s talking about mobile. In our space, the big announcements came from MasterCard and Visa. MasterCard launched a digital wallet in a joint venture with mFoundry, whilst Visa announced an NFC partnership with Samsung. MasterCard’s digital wallet is called MasterPass. In effect, it is the launch of…
I recently hosted a meeting of financial market players to talk about how to rebuild trust in banking. It was an interesting evening, with most of the attendees accepting that trust in banks was at an al-time low. But how low is an all-time low? Well, it’s pretty low according to Edelman. Edelman are the…
I recently hosted a meeting of financial market players to talk about how to rebuild trust in banking. It was an interesting evening, with most of the attendees accepting that trust in banks was at an al-time low. But how low is an all-time low? Well, it’s pretty low according to Edelman. Edelman are the…
I’ve blogged and presented about this subject many times before, so rather than repeating all that, here’s a summation with a new twist. Money is meaningless because we no longer deal in money. When we use the word money, most of us would envisage some brand new shiny, crisp notes coming out of a cash machine,…
Back to reality and what’s happening in the world today. I received a bunch of stats and facts from one of my readers last week lookiing at public (governmental) debt across various countries and geographies, and comparing internal debt (money borrowed within country) with external debt (money borrowed from overseas). Here’s the low-down. Surprisingly or…
The Sunday Times had a specially sponsored section on mobile business this weekend. The section gave some interesting stats that are worth repeating (just in case you didn’t think mobile payments is big business): 28.2 trillion messages will be sent from mobiles in 2016, up from 15 trillion this year (Source: Juniper Research) 9.4 trillion…
The Sunday Times had a specially sponsored section on mobile business this weekend. The section gave some interesting stats that are worth repeating (just in case you didn’t think mobile payments is big business): 28.2 trillion messages will be sent from mobiles in 2016, up from 15 trillion this year (Source: Juniper Research) 9.4 trillion…
The World Payments Report (WPR) has just come out. It is the 8th report produced by EFMA, in partnership with Cap Gemini and the Royal Bank of Scotland (ABN AMRO previously), and provides a good analysis of global payments movements in the same way as we do with our European Payments Report, produced in partnership…
Interbrand published their Global Top Brands report yesterday, which makes for interesting reading. The world’s most valuable brand is still Coca-Cola, followed closely by Apple and IBM. Tech firms feature heavily in the list, with Google and Microsoft in fourth and fifth place, Intel in eighth and Samsung in ninth and Oracle, in eighteenth place,…
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