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The potential of mobile banking, for the realization of ‘anywhere, at anytime’ transactions, is well documented. However, interest is starting to develop regarding a more consumer-orientated vision of what mobile banking and payments can offer. Glenbrook’s Jacqueline Chilton recently published an article in E-Finance & Payments Law & Policy examining the ways mobile banking can [...]
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Last week we asked readers to help us capture a snapshot of U.S. market contactless/RFID terminalization. We were pleased to get 43 brave souls to respond.
Here are the (admittedly anything but scientific) results:
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If you’ve been following along, you know that I’m just back from a week in Europe.
Before heading over, I took the extra precaution of calling a couple of my card issuers to let them know I was going to be traveling – in the hopes that my primary debit and credit cards would continue to [...]
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In a most interesting blog post by Foursquare today, the company’s biz dev team talks about how the location-based app plans to evolve its platform by integrating with “thousands of merchants”.
As MG Siegler writing on TechCrunch noted, down near the end of the blog post under Redemptions is further discussion about how this mobile location-based [...]
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I’m in Europe this week teaching, along with my partner Carol Coye Benson, a private payments workshop. This is the first time we’ve done this in Europe – and we’re looking forward to it!
Flying over on United Airlines, I couldn’t help but notice the new optical bar code scanners that have been installed at [...]
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While I don’t manage to attend every year, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s annual payment conference remains one of my favorites. The Chicago Fed has a great payments team that works hard at putting together a timely program, but I like this event because it really is what it purports to be – [...]
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Today, AT&T announces a test of 2D barcodes for mobile at the point of sale (POS). This pilot will be watched with interest. If it works, couponing/loyalty applications on the phone will no longer need to wait for chipset or hardware development to interact with the point of sale. From Glenbrook’s perspective, the most interesting [...]
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I am just returned from the 25th anniversary International CTIA Wireless conference Las Vegas. An estimated 40,000 people were expected to attend and from the look of things, that number seemed right.
It was encouraging seeing companies willing to travel for a conference and presenting new innovations in the mobile space. The conference is focused on [...]
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Are you planning on attending International CTIA WIRELESS 2010 March 22-25 at the Las Vegas Convention Center? Jacqueline Chilton will be moderating a panel and meeting with vendors and industry leaders. We’d enjoy talking to you so please reach out.
Glenbrook’s Jacqueline Chilton will moderate Bank Perspectives, a session on innovation and consumer uptake of mobile within [...]
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Glenbrook’s Erin McCune is in Orlando for BAI’s Payments Connect conference.
John Stewart of Digital Transaction News moderated an open discussion exploring the most pressing issues in e-payments. It picked up on the list of 10 pressing themes raised in the November issue (pgs. 26-32). The panelists were:
Aaron Fine, Oliver Wyman
David [...]
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When it comes to mobile payments in the U.S. market, there’s a lot of talk and action around P2P and remote purchasing (bill to carrier models, etc.). But the biggest potential is our huge POS (point of sale) market. This market today is arguably the best-served payments market in the world, with extensive merchant terminalization [...]
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Editors note: This post describes the third in a series of panel discussions on mobile payments. The series is organized by MPay Connect and seeks to tap innovators in Silicon Valley and link them to mobile payment pioneers overseas, fostering understanding and discussion of how to apply lessons from the developing world to other markets. [...]
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Glenbrook launched this Payments Views blog back in February as a place to debate and discuss the Payments News of the day. We’re thrilled with your participation in the comments and pleased with the steadily climbing traffic. Looking back over the past year, seven popular topics and recurring themes stand out:
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For the last several months, Glenbrook’s Carol Coye Benson has been interviewing a number of companies involved in mobile payments in the U.S. and Canada. The companies included are Billing Revolution, Blaze Mobile, Bling Nation, Boku, CashEdge, First Data Corp., mFoundry, mPayy, Obopay, Payfone, Zong, and Zoompass.
To make it easy to access all of [...]
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One of the good things about having a really odd company name is that people do remember it. We mostly heard skeptical laughs when Bling Nation first emerged from stealth. But lately we’ve been getting more questions…. I spoke recently to co-CEO and founder Wences Casares.
Wences and co-CEO Meyer Malka have an interesting background, having [...]
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