269 Results from 2012, /payments
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Mobile is the most disruptive consumer product of all time. We went from aspiring to have a computer in every home to having a computer in every pocket. Soon it will be a computer in every object. The adoption of mobile devices has driven the more social, more informed and more location aware lives we now live. There has been a lot of debate ab...
11 November 2012 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Ward Hagenaar Head of Consulting - Co-Founder at PaymentGenes
It is easy to think that attractiveness of mobile transactions is in the embracement of near field communication (NFC). Banks, telco’s, manufacturers, the Forresters, Javelins and Gartners have put in on the agenda since 2006 and promised the infrastructure would be there in the next year, or the year after, or... Smartphones equipped with NFC cou...
05 November 2012 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Some fascinating insights were revealed at the Sibos session “Placing your bets on mobile payments”. The panel included Dan Schatt from PayPal, Kelly Bayer Rosmarin from Commonwealth Bank Australia and Kiyoyuki Tsujimura from DoCoMo Engineering. Emmanuel Daniel from the Asian Banker prompted lively sparring between the panelists with some well-c...
05 November 2012 /payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Nick Ogden Chairman at Ogden Research
Banking has been hitting the headlines in all manner of guises over recent months – from IT problems through to bonuses, the UK’s banking community has never been under more scrutiny. This is why it came as little surprise a few months ago when attention turned to banking fees and the idea of ‘free banking’. Of course, there are strong arguments o...
01 November 2012 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
So a man walks into a shop and says to the shopkeeper “I’d like to buy that electric drill in your window and pay with my MasterCard”. “Certainly Sir”, the shopkeeper replies and starts to pack the goods. “Actually”, the customer says, “I’ve changed my mind, I think I’ll pay in cash”. “Oh, I’m so sorry, Sir”, the shopkeeper says, “but your credit...
01 November 2012 /payments
A couple of days ago, Mobile Payments Today ran an article titled "Vodafone to launch biggest mobile wallet next year" (isn't "the" missing before "biggest" there?..) Welcome to the "mine is bigger than yours" playground. Whilst the user base of 400m subscribers is impressive, it's not unique - Apple, Amazo...
Craig Ramsey Head of Real-Time Payments at ACI Worldwide
The enormity of global trade is on display this year in Osaka, and it is more evident than ever that payments and trade finance are critical banking services supporting global economic growth. Each day participants navigate from hotels across the massive Kansai economic region of Osaka-Kyoto-Kobe-Nara to the INTEX conference center. On they way, we...
31 October 2012 /payments /wholesale Finextra@Sibos
Fareed Jawad VP - Product Development at Spreedly Inc
This blog post is a kind of a walk down the memory lane for me starting from the early days of e-Commerce – think SET protocol to the evolutionary ratification of SSL to be used as the de-facto standard for checkout and payments on shopping websites – circa 1998 when I was at VeriFone (right when it was acquired by HP) to the convergence of the vi...
31 October 2012 /payments
Things I have learned in the first two days here at Sibos in Osaka. I encountered my first musical heated toilet seat; I learned that the ATMs here dispense coins, and I discovered that everything is incredibly expensive - a fact neatly illustrated by a stunned Financial Times staffer who discovered his room service club sandwich had set him back ...
30 October 2012 /payments /retail Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
After years of a lack of clear agreement from the financial sector, the payments hub is finally getting some focus, as companies seek significant gains in financial efficiency. No longer referred to as simply advancements in technology, rather it’s now about actually providing a solution to a business problem. For banks, a single payments hub wou...
30 October 2012 /payments Finextra@Sibos
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