Two things coincided today. The first is the great news that the European Commission is thinking about setting a SEPA end-date. The second is another report I finally got around to reading which is the excellent Boston Consulting Group’s (BCG) payments analysis from the first quarter entitled: “Weathering the Storm”. The reason why the latter…
Two things coincided today. The first is the great news that the European Commission is thinking about setting a SEPA end-date. The second is another report I finally got around to reading which is the excellent Boston Consulting Group’s (BCG) payments analysis from the first quarter entitled: “Weathering the Storm”. The reason why the latter…
This morning my inbox had a big file full of pdf documents talking about business confidence across Asia courtesy of HSBC. It was fascinating stuff so here’s the summary: In the first survey of its kind, the HSBC Trade Confidence Index asked 2,100 trade-oriented small to medium sized enterprises in seven markets – China, India,…
This morning my inbox had a big file full of pdf documents talking about business confidence across Asia courtesy of HSBC. It was fascinating stuff so here’s the summary: In the first survey of its kind, the HSBC Trade Confidence Index asked 2,100 trade-oriented small to medium sized enterprises in seven markets – China, India,…
A nice news report on Pocket Gamer's website, that says iPhone's developers are getting all excited about micro-payments, a new feature in the new iPhone 3.0 software: "Right now, the only way to charge someone for your iPhone game is through a standard App Store purchase. You get your money up front, but you can't…
As we use low latency systems, faster payments, twitter and other technologies, we silently watch the revolution of our world from local to global communities, and to a real-time global pulse. The thing is, do you ever stop to notice? The fact that you can trade in a millionth of a millionth of a second,…
At the payments conference I attended last week, a major theme was the Payment Services Directive (PSD) and Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA). Summarising the PSD and SEPA areas makes for interesting reading, and builds upon the two entries I made last week about the show titled "SEPA may not happen", and "Quantifying views on…
At the payments conference I attended last week, a major theme was the Payment Services Directive (PSD) and Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA). Summarising the PSD and SEPA areas makes for interesting reading, and builds upon the two entries I made last week about the show titled "SEPA may not happen", and "Quantifying views on…
