In case any of you have missed it, I’m enjoying a knock-out discussion with Stephen Wilson. Stephen decided to take me to task over my contention that governments will force us into biometric banking. That started over here in mid-June. Over the weekend, Stephen then moved the debate to this entry on Finextra. I will…
I was looking through notes of a banker friend, who was making a presentation on the key trends in payments for the next two years last week,and one of the stand-out lines was: “The Implementation of SWIFT MT202 Cover Payments” It piqued my interest as I had not heard people discussing this in many other…
I was looking through notes of a banker friend, who was making a presentation on the key trends in payments for the next two years last week,and one of the stand-out lines was: “The Implementation of SWIFT MT202 Cover Payments” It piqued my interest as I had not heard people discussing this in many other…
After my blog entry about Germany losing Euro 2008 due to Twitter, Techcrunch are reporting a new service, Tipit, that allows you to make payments with Twitter. It actually doesn’t though … it just sends you a message to send the money you promised via PayPal. Even so, money via social apps are growing rapidly. …
After my blog entry about Germany losing Euro 2008 due to Twitter, Techcrunch are reporting a new service, Tipit, that allows you to make payments with Twitter. It actually doesn’t though … it just sends you a message to send the money you promised via PayPal. Even so, money via social apps are growing rapidly. …
Following yesterday’s dialogue about the long tail of banking being mobile focused, the EPC and GSMA announced a cooperative agreement for mobile payments this week. Here’s the press release: GSMA Press Release 2008 GSMA Teams Up With European Payments Council Alliance will accelerate deployment of mobile payment services 30th June 2008, London: The GSMA, the…
Following yesterday’s dialogue about the long tail of banking being mobile focused, the EPC and GSMA announced a cooperative agreement for mobile payments this week. Here’s the press release: GSMA Press Release 2008 GSMA Teams Up With European Payments Council Alliance will accelerate deployment of mobile payment services 30th June 2008, London: The GSMA, the…
I wrote an indepth analysis eighteen months ago about PayPal’s 100 months birthday and now they’re celebrating their official tenth anniversary, so I thought I would add a small addendum. Although I say it’s a small addendum, it’s quite an interesting one. Basically, I was updating some old slides about PayPal and thought that I…
