Payments

So I blog about credit cards not being the major issue yesterday and then realise that it is unsecured debt worth billions.  Just in the USA, credit card debt nears $1 trillion.  Therefore, just to show that it cannot be discounted after all, the Wall Street Journal runs a report yesterday that shows AMEX and…

So I blog about credit cards not being the major issue yesterday and then realise that it is unsecured debt worth billions.  Just in the USA, credit card debt nears $1 trillion.  Therefore, just to show that it cannot be discounted after all, the Wall Street Journal runs a report yesterday that shows AMEX and…

Interesting research from Keynote Systems has just been released evaluating website experiences for online banking services in the US and the UK.  The researchers evaluate all sorts of stuff from load handling, response times, average site downtime, brand impact, ease of customer acquisition, customer satisfaction, design and organisation, site impact, ease of navigation and more….

Fantastic news from South Korea.  Kookmin Bank and Samsung have joined together to develop the world’s first music and video, MP3 and MP4 playing credit card.    Who needs an iPod?

Welcome to 2008 folks, and I hope you all had a wonderful holiday break. I did … but what goes on at Xmas, stays in Xmas as they say (hic!). Anyways, a year ago, I made a bunch of forecasts for the year 2007.  This year, I’ll go a step further and make some concrete…

Welcome to 2008 folks, and I hope you all had a wonderful holiday break. I did … but what goes on at Xmas, stays in Xmas as they say (hic!). Anyways, a year ago, I made a bunch of forecasts for the year 2007.  This year, I’ll go a step further and make some concrete…

Welcome to 2008 folks, and I hope you all had a wonderful holiday break. I did … but what goes on at Xmas, stays in Xmas as they say (hic!). Anyways, a year ago, I made a bunch of forecasts for the year 2007.  This year, I’ll go a step further and make some concrete…

Welcome to 2008 folks, and I hope you all had a wonderful holiday break. I did … but what goes on at Xmas, stays in Xmas as they say (hic!). Anyways, a year ago, I made a bunch of forecasts for the year 2007.  This year, I’ll go a step further and make some concrete…

From a technology perspective, I think 2007 has seen the biggest changes in the payments world.  From mobile and contactless payments proving themselves to come of age, to new currencies in the form of Linden dollars and Chinese QQ, to corporates demanding change, to new infrastructures and the introduction of SEPA, to banks moving from…

From a technology perspective, I think 2007 has seen the biggest changes in the payments world.  From mobile and contactless payments proving themselves to come of age, to new currencies in the form of Linden dollars and Chinese QQ, to corporates demanding change, to new infrastructures and the introduction of SEPA, to banks moving from…