- November 13, 2012
- Business, Digital Payments, Global Payments Knowledge, Technology
Faster Payments Goes Global
Well maybe a slightly exaggerated title, but I was personally delighted and professionally intrigued to see that VOCALINK are preparing to deliver their Faster Payments technology in Singapore and are part of a consortium proposing to deliver the technology in Australia. Personally delighted because, as
- November 1, 2012
- Newsletter
Getting ‘back to core business’
Over the last 4 years we have seen the payments industry in “disruptive change”. Well established organisations have all been challenged by alternative players and all are moving through change cycle stages with varying degrees of speed and success. What appears to be most interesting
- September 20, 2012
- Newsletter
The Casino of the Payments Marketplace
The Payments marketplace continues to consolidate with acquisitions and strategic partnerships, and at the same time attract masses of new innovative players with the next “silver bullet” solutions/models. With low Interest Rates around the world making money cheap, so rising investments are plentiful. This month’s
- September 19, 2012
- Card Processing, Digital Payments, Global Payments Knowledge, Strategy, Technology
Why it’s cool to be Square now!
Square payments – a device that plugs into an iPhone or iPad and turns it into a credit card terminal. Today this brainchild of Jack Dorsey’s is worth $3.25 billion having raised another $200 million in its fourth round of funding. To put that in
- May 23, 2012
- Card Processing
Card Terminals: A thing of the past?
We’ve talked about mobile commerce and how new ways to pay would have an effect on cards, but maybe the biggest shift we will see in the near term is mobile phones taking on the role of the payment terminal. Following the success of Square
- April 16, 2012
- Card Processing
Is it “The End of Cards” or “The Future of Cards”?
It is very easy to say that the Alternative Payments Methods; Mobile, Square, iZettle, e-Commerce, Cloud Wallets etc., are approaching mass and will “replace” cards in the future. Appropriate historical analogies could be: “Cards are the end of Cash” – a statement recurring for about
- March 5, 2012
- Digital Payments, Global Payments Knowledge, Payment Research, Strategy, Technology
Mobile Commerce: Mass Usage Around the Corner?
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
- December 15, 2011
- Digital Payments, Strategy, Technology
The Future of the NFC Ecosystem
Whereas various NFC research studies predict an amazing commercial future of NFC services, which may result in around 860 million NFC handsets being shipped worldwide and €110BN in payment value globally by 2015, the key question to success really is how the commercial quotes are
- September 20, 2011
- Global Payments Knowledge
Payments Industry entering its own “.com” revolution?
At least two fundamentals created the previous “.com” era; Ideas abounded on radical ways to capture new opportunities converting to mega revenue and instant large corporations Money was cheap and readily available – the investment community had deep pockets and could raise cash readily and