Entries Tagged as 'mobile payments'
by Kristin Moyer | December 20, 2011 | Comments Off
Contributed by David Furlonger On the weekend, I read a rather alarming commentary by David Stockman European Banking System is on the Verge of Collapse. While this analysis clearly highlights the fragility of bank balance sheets, it doesn’t dig deeply into the graver issue facing the Eurozone policy makers and indeed the world – that [...]
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by Kristin Moyer | March 18, 2010 | Comments Off
Citi recently completed a mobile payments trial in India that has received a lot of press. The trial was a 6 month Tap and Pay project that involved 250 merchants in Bengaluru. Most of the articles I’ve read on this trial are saying it was wildly successful. I did some math to see if this [...]
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by Kristin Moyer | January 22, 2009 | Comments Off
Christophe Uzureau and Stessa Cohen here. Sybase announced today that it is acquiring Paybox. Beyond the technology knowhow brought to Sybase via the Paybox acquisition, there is an important potential mindset contribution. Since Paybox has been around since 1999, they had gone through several iterations, moving from a branded B2C service to a mobile solution [...]
Category: payments Uncategorized Tags: banking and investment services, mobile banking, mobile financial services, mobile payments, paybox, sybase
by Kristin Moyer | January 15, 2009 | 2 Comments
Christophe Uzureau and Kristin Moyer here. Many barriers exist to the more widespread adoption of mobile payments in developed markets, one of them being lack of consumer interest. Another barrier, however much less significant, has been the mobile phone itself. Most mobile phones do not yet include near field communication (NFC) capabilities due to business [...]
Category: payments Uncategorized Tags: banking and investment services, bluetooth mobile payments, contactless payments, mobile payments, nacha, nfc
by Kristin Moyer | December 4, 2008 | 2 Comments
The World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland announced 34 Technology Pioneers today. The WEF defines a “technology pioneer”: To be selected as a Technology Pioneer, a company must be involved in the development of life-changing technology innovation and have potential for long-term impact on business and society. In addition, it must demonstrate visionary leadership, [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Mint, mobile banking, mobile payments, Ngpay, Qifang, social networking, World Economic Forum