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Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven
There has been some debate on Finextra of late as to whether Mobile Wallets and Payments are mainstream, or whether we are still years off seeing them have some real impact on commerce and payments. I thought I would give the Finextra community the benefit of some simple research that shows that not only are mobile payments gaining traction, but f...
03 October 2013 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Last year the US contributed close to 20% of the world's GDP despite coming off the back of the biggest economic downturn since the 1930's Great Depression. The US, UK, Germany, Russian and CIS States, and China dominate the world's payment landscape currently, but in volume of non-bank payments the US dominates with over 50% of the world's total...
02 October 2013 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Recent research has shown that banks spend more on IT than any other industry sector (See Deutsche Bank Research - IT in banks: What does it cost?). In fact, on average banks expend 7.3% of their budgets on technology, where other industries average half of that at 3.7%. Bankers would defend these costs because of high compliance and regulatory co...
14 August 2013 /regulation Innovation in Financial Services
Recently I have been embroiled in an interesting debate on Finextra.com regarding the death of cash, or as some may classify it, the premature assassination of cash. Connected with this the threat of BitCoins have recently been extolled throughout the media with the intensity only normally afforded more existential threats such as terrorism or lar...
08 August 2013 /payments /regulation Innovation in Financial Services
This week we're celebrating 5 years of the Apple App store (see Wired's commentary.) The realization that in 5 years mobile and apps have had such a huge impact on banking, can not be understated. Of course, there were many in the financial services space that were massively skeptical of the iPhone and Apps when they first launched in 2007. My fav...
15 July 2013 Innovation in Financial Services
I had a call with an industry colleague earlier today talking the recent news on GMail Google Wallet integration, Dwolla's funding round and the "Square Cash" announcement. At large I'm seeing two broad industry responses to these moves. The first, is to see this all as a distraction from mainstream banking and that essentially all these ...
22 May 2013 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Traditionally, if you wanted to move money around, save cash, pay a bill, purchase something at a store, or otherwise have some sort of systemic access to your cash as you moved around - you needed a “bank”. In fact, you couldn't do any of these things in the past without a bank. Despite the fact you might have opted to just use cash and stay 'off...
10 December 2012 /retail Innovation in Financial Services
There’s a long held premise that branches are great channels for advice, that this is the one differentiation that bank branches provide that the Internets could never compete with. There are three problems with this assertion that should rightly challenge the superiority of the branch channel in bank operations today: Customers rarely get advice ...
22 October 2012 /retail Innovation in Financial Services
Baby Boomers and Gen-X have in common the need to experience life in all it’s glory. Whether that is born out of a sense of adventure, the need for tactile feedback or in the sense of face-to-face social connections, at the core of much of our buying behavior historically has been the need to ‘touch and feel’ a product before a purchase. There’s a...
07 October 2012 /retail Innovation in Financial Services
It took almost two decades for credit card payments (followed by debit cards) to become globally ubiquitous, so it might be reasonable to think that a paradigm shift at the POS will take years to become mainstream. Why would you spend money deploying expensive NFC-enabled (Near Field Communication) POS terminals unless consumers were going to use ...
26 September 2012 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
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