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Brett King

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The Total Disruption of Retail Banking - Part 1

There’s a philosophy I characterize as “Lucky to be a customer” within banking today. A customer comes to the bank, we make him jump through hoops we often call risk assessment, customer profiling or KYC, and then maybe, if they are not too risky a proposition, we might let them be our customer. This philosophy comes not from a monopoly play as a ...

05 July 2011 /payments Finance 2.0

Mobile Payments can be much more than P2P and NFC...

Today I’ve been in Beetsterzwaag, Opsterland, Netherlands, about 150 kilometers from Amsterdam at an offsite strategic retreat with the ICS (International Card Services) team. Initially part of Bank of America’s presence in the Netherlands, ICS today is an independent subsidiary of ABN Amro NV, but works in the provision of a range of card service...

29 June 2011 /payments Innovation in Financial Services

Visa gets its wallet sorted, or does it?

The announcement today of Visa’s acquisition of Fundamo signals the drawing of the battle lines in the face off between Mastercard and Visa in the mobile payments stakes. While I understand that a wallet is much more than just an NFC enabler, the announcement of Google’s NFC trial around their ‘wallet’ last month put some pressure on Visa to make...

10 June 2011 /payments Finance 2.0

Google Wallet is not about Payments

Last week Google announced their long awaited NFC-trial for mobile payments. On the face of it, many perceive that Google’s play is an attempt to cannibalize the lucrative payments market, but if that was the case, why has Google not taken a share of interchange fees from Citi and Mastercard? In addition, Google is supplying contactless point-of-...

06 June 2011 /payments Innovation in Financial Services

The coming clash of KYC and P2P

Clearly we are entering a phase of massive disruption to the payments system(s) and incumbents of today. To put that disruption in perspective, let's think about what has led up to the current slew of mobile payments announcements and improvements. PayPal evolves P2P PayPal commenced business in its current form around March 2000 with the merger b...

30 May 2011 /payments Innovation in Financial Services

Mobile Payments Palooza

Square POS and Cardcase, ClearXchange (BofA, Chase and Wells), Visa NFC trials, Google NFC trials - wow! Mobile Payments just arrived big time this week in the US particularly. So what does it all mean? Inevitability is biting Clearly there's a bunch of very smart people that have all come to the same conclusion over the last months. Mobile Payment...

26 May 2011 /payments Innovation in Financial Services

Resistance is futile - the end of banking as we know it...

My pals at BankSimple soft launched their debit cards internally for their staff this week, which is big news because it signifies the acceleration of the big shift in the BANK 2.0 landscape. Interestingly, though, this launch wasn't easy, as the team at BankSimple articulated on their blog post of today. The last many months have taught us great...

20 May 2011 Innovation in Financial Services

Why Apple must launch NFC in the iPhone 5

On 14th of March 2011, The Independent newspaper from the UK published an article suggesting that the iPhone 5 would not include Near-Field Communication (NFC) capability. A few days later on the 17 March, Forbes rebutted the Guardian’s article quoting a source that said NFC was a sure thing. Who’s right, and will Apple delay their NFC launch t

09 May 2011 /payments Innovation in Financial Services

Get the journey right, stop focusing on the destination

If you are thinking of a trip you have any number of options to get there. You can travel by car, by bus, by train, by ship or by air. Depending on the distance you might walk, or ride a bike. You can travel in luxury such as a private jet, the first class cabin of an Emirates A380, a stateroom on a cruise liner, or you can go ‘budget'. RyanAir, S...

20 April 2011 /retail Innovation in Financial Services

The Curse of the Innovator

Recently we've been discussing at many organizations what it takes to get innovation done in large businesses with embedded behavior and practices. One side of the coin is obviously the impact of Disruptive Technology, but the other is purely the issue of Innovation Management or creating an organization that embraces or assists innovation. In a re...

14 April 2011 /retail Innovation in Financial Services

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