- February 12, 2013
- Digital Payments
What’s in Your Wallet?
My kids gave me a new Union Jack wallet for Christmas, forcing me to answer the question in Capital One’s old adverts, “What’s in your wallet?” Capital One credit card (the advert worked!), personal debit card, business debit card, supermarket credit card, 2nd debit card,
- 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 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
- 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