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Everyone wants robustness and lowest operational cost. In the very short term this is hard to achieve, but since this is not just a short term challenge now, then it is crucial to evaluate new partners who can augment BAU with new revenue streams and material cost savings. Many organisations think that competitive peers have…
The Uberization of Money The familiar middlemen of 20th-century banking and investing are giving way to something very different. Are we ready for the opportunities—and the risks? Imagine that you want to buy a home. You might find a real-estate agent to show you around, which is a very 20th-century way of doing…
Digitisation of money and increased connectivity is transforming the P2P space. Sources 1.Money, money, money: The history of cash, The Independent, Oct 2007 2.History of plastic cards in the UK, UK Payments Council 3.Money and Currency in the 21st Century, Geoffrey Turk, 1997 4.The History of Mobile Payments: How and where it started? Electronic Banking…
Working for PayX places me firmly within the payments industry, but as someone who works in digital marketing I don’t personally possess a great knowledge of the actual workings behind payments technology. But thanks to all the recent innovation – I don’t need to! As a member of the general public I too watch with…
Last week I was lucky enough to present my thoughts on Payment Trends at the CAC Card Academy event down in Oslo. For those of you who don’t know this was the last in a series of conferences which focus on Payment Card matters in the Nordics and Baltic Rim countries. It was a great chance…
I took a look at some of the reported findings from MasterCard over on Finextra today. Their article titled: MasterCard Research shows that Europeans fear they’ll pick up the tab for lower Interchange Fees makes for a very interesting read, with a hint to why the research was carried out here: The firm[MasterCard] has long…
New products, new channels, massive technological change and all bundled up into two major releases each year by the card schemes, well, as it says in each closing episode of Frasier – ‘What is a boy to do’ Put simply, the ambition to keep interchange fee structures as simple as possible is under constant challenge…
This year’s iconic Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, not only had the usual device releases but more significantly it had for the first time a wave of major mobile payments announcements. Probably the most active organisation was Visa, announcing key deals with Orange, Intel and Vodafone, each for very different purposes; Orange for person-2-person…