Payments

Welcome to 2008 folks, and I hope you all had a wonderful holiday break. I did … but what goes on at Xmas, stays in Xmas as they say (hic!). Anyways, a year ago, I made a bunch of forecasts for the year 2007.  This year, I’ll go a step further and make some concrete…

Welcome to 2008 folks, and I hope you all had a wonderful holiday break. I did … but what goes on at Xmas, stays in Xmas as they say (hic!). Anyways, a year ago, I made a bunch of forecasts for the year 2007.  This year, I’ll go a step further and make some concrete…

From a technology perspective, I think 2007 has seen the biggest changes in the payments world.  From mobile and contactless payments proving themselves to come of age, to new currencies in the form of Linden dollars and Chinese QQ, to corporates demanding change, to new infrastructures and the introduction of SEPA, to banks moving from…

From a technology perspective, I think 2007 has seen the biggest changes in the payments world.  From mobile and contactless payments proving themselves to come of age, to new currencies in the form of Linden dollars and Chinese QQ, to corporates demanding change, to new infrastructures and the introduction of SEPA, to banks moving from…

From a technology perspective, I think 2007 has seen the biggest changes in the payments world.  From mobile and contactless payments proving themselves to come of age, to new currencies in the form of Linden dollars and Chinese QQ, to corporates demanding change, to new infrastructures and the introduction of SEPA, to banks moving from…

From a technology perspective, I think 2007 has seen the biggest changes in the payments world.  From mobile and contactless payments proving themselves to come of age, to new currencies in the form of Linden dollars and Chinese QQ, to corporates demanding change, to new infrastructures and the introduction of SEPA, to banks moving from…

From a technology perspective, I think 2007 has seen the biggest changes in the payments world.  From mobile and contactless payments proving themselves to come of age, to new currencies in the form of Linden dollars and Chinese QQ, to corporates demanding change, to new infrastructures and the introduction of SEPA, to banks moving from…

For most retail banks, the credit crunch’s knock-on effect has made it a fairly depressing end of year too, with tightening of policies for mortgages and lending. Mind you, considering the debt mountain in the USA, it is not surprising that the economy is grinding to a halt.  In fact, the American debt mountain has…

For most retail banks, the credit crunch’s knock-on effect has made it a fairly depressing end of year too, with tightening of policies for mortgages and lending. Mind you, considering the debt mountain in the USA, it is not surprising that the economy is grinding to a halt.  In fact, the American debt mountain has…

For most retail banks, the credit crunch’s knock-on effect has made it a fairly depressing end of year too, with tightening of policies for mortgages and lending. Mind you, considering the debt mountain in the USA, it is not surprising that the economy is grinding to a halt.  In fact, the American debt mountain has…