Payments

There have been some extraordinary activities of late, what with Barclays throwing money transmitters off their network and gaining the wrath of Mo Farah. HSBC has taken similar action, but went one step beyond and annoyed all the diplomatic embassies based here in London by shutting any they view as suspect accounts based upon five…

Pew Research is always producing interesting reports, but this one specifically caught my attention this week: 51% of US adults bank online. Over half of Americans are banking online or, if you translate that into those who use the internet (about 80% of US adults), then 61% of internet users bank online. More intriguingly is…

Pew Research is always producing interesting reports, but this one specifically caught my attention this week: 51% of US adults bank online. Over half of Americans are banking online or, if you translate that into those who use the internet (about 80% of US adults), then 61% of internet users bank online. More intriguingly is…

Talking of banknotes and bank note designs, brings me to a final thought on this: which country has the world’s best bank note? Surprisingly, this is a debate that rages online by many commentators, newspapers and institutions.  There are books about it, and even an annual award for the world’s most beautiful banknote from the International Bank…

Talking of banknotes and bank note designs, brings me to a final thought on this: which country has the world’s best bank note? Surprisingly, this is a debate that rages online by many commentators, newspapers and institutions.  There are books about it, and even an annual award for the world’s most beautiful banknote from the International Bank…

Two years from now, Mobile Payments Today forecast that the typical mobile user will be living like this infographic below. Personally, I'm living like this today.

I keep thinking I should stop blogging about Bitcoin, as I’ve written so much about it already: Is Bitcoin the future of money … or are we smoking dope?  (October 2011) Bitcoin: immersive or subversive? (January 2012) You should take Bitcoin seriously (September 2012) A new currency payment system is about to explode (February 2013) The latest stats on…

I keep thinking I should stop blogging about Bitcoin, as I’ve written so much about it already: Is Bitcoin the future of money … or are we smoking dope?  (October 2011) Bitcoin: immersive or subversive? (January 2012) You should take Bitcoin seriously (September 2012) A new currency payment system is about to explode (February 2013) The latest stats on…

We all know the story of Square, or we should by now, but times are getting interesting for them. Not only challenged by PayPal, whose recent launch of PayPal Here brings proximity payments to the world, they are also being challenged by suppliers like NCR, who are also getting in on the act with dongles…