Finance 2.0

A community for discussing the application of Web 2.0 technologies to financial services.

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The War of the Wallets

Following a tentative start with Google first launching its mobile wallet offering last year and then O2 in recent months, the war of the mobile wallets has finally begun in earnest. Last week Microsoft announced the development of its new wallet for Windows Phone, which will allow customers to not only pay through NFC technology, but also store t...

26 June 2012

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Charge some retail therapy to your Instore Wallet app

According to analyst house Gartner, the value of worldwide mobile payments is set to soar 62% to $171.5 billion in 2012. Moreover, if the market continues to grow at this rapid rate, it should be worth a massive $617 billion by 2016. This would mean mobile payments reaching 448 million users – a significant chunk of the world’s current population....

06 June 2012 /payments

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What's the Future of Mobile Banking?

On Tuesday I chaired the Future of Mobile Banking conference held in London. It was a great event, with a wide variety of highly qualified speakers and some very smart debate on topics including mobile banking, usability, innovation, and m-payments. What made the conference so compelling was that it came at a particularly interesting time. Mobile ...

31 May 2012 /retail

Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven

Bye-bye Checking and Current Account

I've been recently debating with bankers and credit union executives on the core banking proposition they offer to new prospects. One of the realizations that led me to this was some recent research released by Aite Group around the 'debanked' generation (Feb, 2012). In March 2011, I released a YouTube Video discussing the same segment of customer...

29 May 2012 /payments /retail

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Taking wave and pay to the fields, and the masses!

Barclaycard has made yet another foray into the contactless arena having announced last week it would utilise its sponsorship of the Wireless Festival in early July to roll out contactless wrist bands to festival goers. The ‘PayBands’ will allow revellers to make cashless payments throughout the three day event as well as benefit from other incent...

21 May 2012

Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven

Mobile payments already exceed cheques

If you believe the pundits, mobile payments are years away from being mainstream. But that’s not at all an accurate assessment of the state of the industry. Firstly, a mobile payment can be many things. There are seven primary models for mobile-enabled payments: SMS based transactional payments In-App Payments Direct Mobile Billing Mobile commerce...

18 May 2012 /payments

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Consumer sentiment backs mobile wallet

It was interesting to read that the FSA has warned retail banks to update their payment methods to improve customer service. In letters written in January the regulator urged banks to move with the times and away from outdated technology in order to better engage with customers. This is a sentiment I have been talking about for a while now and it ...

09 May 2012 /payments

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Innovations in SCF: Learnings from EPCA summit 2012 in Rome

On the 18th of April I organised an expert session during the 11th EPCA summit in Rome. The conference was held in the Palazzo Altieri, a beautiful place with a rich history in the heart of Rome. The topic of that session was “Supply Chain Finance: unlocking the SME”. Speakers contributing to the program were Liliana Fratini Passi (CBI), Reinier W...

02 May 2012 /payments /wholesale

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First Term Bank Report

Well we have got through the first quarter of the year and a lot of things have already happened. This is my 2012 first term report for banking and the changes that need to be made over the rest of the year. 1. Remove all sentiment from the decision making process Sentiment is a strange thing. It is a natural trait that all human beings ...

02 April 2012 /retail

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Does speedy customer adoption matter to the Google Wallet?

Google is currently considering new ways to drive further adoption of its payments Wallet in the US, with Bloomberg suggesting that the company is planning to share revenue with carriers such as Verizon Wireless and AT&T to encourage their customers to embrace the new payments technology. Other high profile partnerships in the mobile payments ...

30 March 2012 /payments