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Google moves in the payments game
While the focus has been firmly on Apple and the expectation is that it has the upper hand in the payments world, do not write off other players. The latest twist is rumoured to be […]
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Billing
Customers paying bills via mobile
When we focus on mobile we tend to lean towards payments – and rightly so, since NFC based payments will be worth $130 billion by 2020, according to Strategy Analytics. But a survey conducted by […]
Beyond Billing
Banks, legacy systems and a one-view wonder
Amongst the heap of supplements that make up the modern Sunday newspaper (paper version, online versions available), was one called ‘We have lift off – plotting the best route through the crowded payments space.’ Amongst […]
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P2P payments hit the jackpot
With all the hype about Apple Pay and whether or not it will be a huge success – recent news about some merchants shutting it off notwithstanding – people are finally looking at mobile devices […]
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Wearables the future of payments? I’m not convinced …
A few weeks back I spotted the bPay band from Barclaycard which supports contactless NFC payments via a wristband. Using the bPay website you load money from a debit or credit card and then make […]
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Mixed drinks, no mixed messages
Bars and pubs of all levels of repute have several things in common that are obvious as soon as you walk in the door, and actually before you even walk in. From the outside, you’ll likely […]
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PayPal to go it alone – we wonder why
To the untrained eye, the impact that Apple’s late, possibly great, move into payments is having is astonishing. Just last week, PayPal and eBay announced that they would become two companies from next year, following […]
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Did Apple just win the payments game?
The short list for prizes for the most under-stated headline now includes this gem for our friends at Mobile Payments Today. It reads ‘MNOs face some uncertainty with mobile wallets.’ It should have included a cartoon […]
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Amex bites the mobile payment hand that feeds it
At Apple’s latest product unveiling, people might have oohed and aahed over the bigger iPhone 6 screens and the Apple Watch, but the big story was undoubtedly Apple Pay. It, more than anything else announced […]
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An obsession with payments – why?
Payments used to be boring. You would meet a Billing Manager at a conference and he would say he looked after billing and payments and you would start talking about billing. Now, so some would […]