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…
Building upon the discussions about personalisation and virtualisation, these are important. In fact, as I’ve mentioned before, personalised, virtualised in real-time on my mobile is PFM-squared (does any of that last sentence make any sense?). So then I was recently asked to address a conference with a mix of banks from all sectors, and to give…
Building upon the discussions about personalisation and virtualisation, these are important. In fact, as I’ve mentioned before, personalised, virtualised in real-time on my mobile is PFM-squared (does any of that last sentence make any sense?). So then I was recently asked to address a conference with a mix of banks from all sectors, and to give…
If you didn't think there was a payments revolution taking place, then think again as dealmaking websites like Groupon, Living Social and Huddlebuy have been pushing payments systems. It makes startling and notable change when you see consumer-based services pushing merchant and business based services at low cost. First there was my free deal for…
If you didn't think there was a payments revolution taking place, then think again as dealmaking websites like Groupon, Living Social and Huddlebuy have been pushing payments systems. It makes startling and notable change when you see consumer-based services pushing merchant and business based services at low cost. First there was my free deal for…
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,…
I've worked for American firms during my main working life, just as we saw the rise of political correctness (PC) and the PC-police. It got to the stage where you couldn't even say "I like your new hairstyle", without falling foul of the PC-police (I know, as one of my male colleagues in Chicago got…
