With recent news that Barclays Pin-git (or is it Ping-it) has had 120,000 downloads in 5 days, that Square has 1m merchants on their payments platform (1/8th of all US card merchants/retailers) and Starbucks is doing 25% of it’s North American payments via a cardless App – it seems like Mobile Payments are taking off [...]
Tags: banking, Barclays, Google Wallet, Mobile, payments, pingit, Square, starbucks
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February 23rd, 2012
As we’ve embarked on our Movenbank project, we’ve had a lot of people express concerns about our choice to be completely cardless and go with NFC and various other P2P solutions. There’s also often raised questions over which handset platform to support, which devices are certified, the lack of real NFC standards, how to enable [...]
Tags: dwolla, mastercard, Mobile Money, mobile payments, NFC, payments networks, PayPal, Square, starbucks, visa
Continue Reading | Add Comment » | February 13th, 2012
There’s a great deal of discussion and debate around what will ultimately happen to banking as a result of the massive changes in connectivity, utility, mobility and customer experience taking place right now. One thing is for sure, the world is changing.
We see PayPal owning online payments, with others like Stripe hot on their tails.
Square [...]
Tags: apps, disenfranchising, disintermediation, Mobile Banking, Movenbank, PayPal, Retail Banking, simple, Square, stripe, Tablet
Continue Reading | 1 Comment | February 1st, 2012
Square POS and Cardcase, ClearXchange (BofA, Chase and Wells), Visa NFC trials, Google NFC trials – wow! Mobile Payments just arrived big time this week in the US particularly. So what does it all mean?
Inevitability is biting
Clearly there’s a bunch of very smart people that have all come to the same conclusion over the last [...]
Tags: apple, ClearXchange, google, GSMA, microsoft, NFC, Nokia, payments, Square
Continue Reading | 1 Comment | May 26th, 2011
On 14th of March 2011, The Independent newspaper from the UK published an article suggesting that the iPhone 5 would not include Near-Field Communication (NFC) capability. A few days later on the 17 March, Forbes rebutted the Guardian’s article quoting a source that said NFC was a sure thing. Who’s right, and will Apple delay [...]
Tags: 5, forbes, google, independent, iPhone, Mobile, Nexus S, NFC, payments, Square
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