Payments

I heard this quote the other day and loved it, so I’m using it (nothing like plagiarism is there?). Equally, I’m stealing lots of other things these days, such as this animation sent to me courtesy of Simon Deane-Johns: If you are using a system that has a Firewall and can’t work this out, then…

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…

The conference that Johnny Brit addressed was attended by around 300 people, mostly bankers and payments solutions providers from across Europe. Throughout the conference, interactive electronic voting was used to gauge people's views of the markets, the economic crisis and the implementation of SEPA. Here are the results. The first question  was: What is the…

The conference that Johnny Brit addressed was attended by around 300 people, mostly bankers and payments solutions providers from across Europe. Throughout the conference, interactive electronic voting was used to gauge people's views of the markets, the economic crisis and the implementation of SEPA. Here are the results. The first question  was: What is the…

I was invited to a conference this week and given the title of the talk as: “Why there’s a very real danger that SEPA may not happen”. As a good European who believes in the PSD and SEPA, I declined to discuss this and invited my long-time acquaintance Sir Jonathan Brit to speak on my…