News
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 […]
Apple Pay
Beyond Billing
It’s all about the payment experience
There has been much discussion recently about the decision of two retailers in the US to drop NFC payments in order to stop Apple Pay being used in their stores. These stores are part of […]
NFC
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 […]
Beyond Billing
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 […]
Opinion
Apple’s ‘token’ offering
It’s been a week since I wrote about the impending disruption Apple Pay would bring to the payments industry as a whole. It appears that after the initial excitement of the new iPhone 6 and […]
Beyond Billing
The real jewel in Apple’s crown (and it’s not what you think)
What an anti-climax! Most of the predictions about the big Apple announcement were remarkably accurate. Bigger iPhones and the Apple Watch that looks remarkably like, well, a watch. Ho hum. But wait, there was some […]
Payments
Apple Pay – evolution or revolution?
Innovation in payments tends to be evolutionary, rather than revolutionary. The success stories in payments tend to be based on taking what’s already there and making it work better. This approach also happens to be […]