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 […]
payments
Beyond Billing
Payments warranty for merchants – clever!
Hardly a week goes by that we don’t hear about some kind of credit card breach. While larger retail chains may be in a better position to deal with a drop in business after a […]
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 […]
Featured
Storm brewing for UK payments in 2015
We in the United Kingdom already use so little cash that we could easily have gone the way of the Nordics, where consumers have such good payment systems that mobile payments took a back seat. […]
Beyond Billing
Finally! This year will be the Year of Mobile Payments
For the last few years we have been asking whether 201x is the ‘year of mobile payments.’ Until last year, we basically said no. Last year, once we finally believed that Apple was on the point […]
Opinion
How disrupted were payments in 2014?
As the year draws to a close it’s worth reflecting on some of the more interesting disruptions in payments we’ve seen this year. Highlights for me include … The launch that will perhaps have the […]
Opinion
Mobile payments – Tibet leads the way
Unlikely as this may sound, remote regions of China are seeing the fastest, in some cases amazing, growth in mobile payments. Over half of Tibet’s online purchases are made using mobiles. This according to Alipay, […]
Beyond Billing
Mobile payments cross digital divide
It is often the quiet ones that make the biggest steps. And Bango is not necessarily a company you would think of when reviewing a list of billing companies. The company has teamed up with […]
Payments
M-PESA – ready for Europe?
For several years now we have been pointing at M-PESA as a beacon of a successful money transfer solution. For almost as long, we have been pointing at M-PESA and saying ‘that is all well […]
Billing
Consumers don’t want bills – how about a receipt?
The discussion around whether consumers want bills has been short, sharp and is continuing as we speak. The conclusion seems to be “of course consumers don’t ‘want’ bills,” but “they are a necessary evil, and […]