Payments

I’ve blogged about the cash machine of the future before, with BBVA coming up with the idea of side-facing screens. Very nice too. Recently I saw some other variations of the cash machine, such as the new video ATMs being rolled out by banks such as Dollar Bank in America. And I thought ATM stood…

The world is a wonderful place, as times shift fast and things turn faster than an egg on a timer. Just as you get used to one technology, another comes along and turns things on its head. What technology do we mean? NFC. Near Field Communication. No Flippin' Chance. The more I think about NFC, the…

I realised that it was over ten years ago when I started banging on about mobile payments and tablet computing.  It struck me particularly when I revived this video that I made back in 2000. From Chris Skinner's videos on Vimeo Some would say that video was / is visionary.  I would say that it was just ahead…

I was jut updating a presentation about mobile payments. The presentation was from May 2011 and talked extensively about Google Wallet, Square and M-PESA. One year on and the presentation still talks about the same things but I am shocked and amazed about how much things have changed in just eighteen months. For example, the…

I ‘ve been talking about contactless for years now  - I remember talking about the Octopus card system about ten years ago after it launched in Hong Kong in 1997 – and still find it surprising how invisible it is. Sure it got some coverage at the Olympics but some, like Forrester, reckon that NFC mobile payments…

This week’s TIME Magazine has a spread all about how mobile technologies are changing our world. There are stories of how it’s changing elections, charity, privacy and more, as well as getting rid of our wallets of course. The wallet piece is pretty weak to be honest, with the story of one of their journo’s spending a…

Standard Chartered paid off the new Sheriff of New York City, Benjamin Lawsky, to the tune of $340 million to get rid of the pest.  As Investec's commentator Ian Gordon said yesterday, they “acted with pragmatism and integrity in the face of extreme provocation”. What really gets me here is the whole USA versus the rest…