Uncategorized

USA gets mobile NFC Just got a note from Deloitte about research they’ve performed into mobile financial business models. The survey covered 89 senior executives from a wide range of companies with close ties to mobile payments. These respondents predicted that more than 24% of all mobile subscribers in the USA are likely to be using…

USA gets mobile NFC Just got a note from Deloitte about research they’ve performed into mobile financial business models. The survey covered 89 senior executives from a wide range of companies with close ties to mobile payments. These respondents predicted that more than 24% of all mobile subscribers in the USA are likely to be using…

There’s been this thing called a Tobin Tax mooted for a while now. Before we get into the whole thing, what is the Tobin Tax? “A Tobin tax, suggested by Nobel Laureate economist James Tobin, was originally defined as a tax on all spot conversions of one currency into another.” The idea is to place…

There’s been this thing called a Tobin Tax mooted for a while now. Before we get into the whole thing, what is the Tobin Tax? “A Tobin tax, suggested by Nobel Laureate economist James Tobin, was originally defined as a tax on all spot conversions of one currency into another.” The idea is to place…

Another lengthy chat about the speed, or lack of speed, in banking innovations. Right now we’re seeing this massive change in the end user devices for payments and access, with every mobile telephone on the planet becoming a contactless point of sale and purchase. The fact that Square has over 800,000 merchants and is processing…

Another lengthy chat about the speed, or lack of speed, in banking innovations. Right now we’re seeing this massive change in the end user devices for payments and access, with every mobile telephone on the planet becoming a contactless point of sale and purchase. The fact that Square has over 800,000 merchants and is processing…

The Finanser’s mate Brett King – Chris Skinner “taught me everything I know” - was in a webinar yesterday, talking about the future of banking with some good stats to back up ideas. A key one is that the average number of in-branch transactions has declined by a quarter in the last four years, from around 11,400…