This Christmas shopping season will be all about consumer adoption of mobile and tablet devices. While the proportion of consumers actually using a mobile to make a purchase remains a minority — just 28 per cent of US and 25 per...
Every good film director knows it’s best to show not tell. Same goes for presentations. Which is why I started using this ppt whenever I’m asked to explain what the heck is going on in mobile payments. I have boiled the...
How to save the British high street? It’s a question that gets asked more and more as towns and cities fill up with charity shops, supermarkets and boarded up units. eCommerce is considered the main villain here. But maybe it’s the...
What an intriguing idea. US identity specialist NXT-ID has filed a patent for a very different kind of mobile wallet, which it calls The Wocket. Here’s the basic idea. NXT-ID thinks Isis et al are wrong for moving the wallet into...
CardFlight looks to be competing in two fast-growing markets. The first is mPOS, where firms like Square already supply thousands of traders with a card-reading dongle that turns phones into payment tills. It’s also going after the in-app card payments space ...
It started by offering the ability to send targeted messages to opted-in subscribers. Last week, it added similarly targeted display ads. Now comes the payment part. With this MasterCard partnership, Weve will give subscribers with an NFC phone the ability to...
A survey by business process management firm Genpact found 64 per cent of Brits want to go mobile or online to do banking. Just 29 per cent would prefer to use branches or call centre-based telephone banking. Among ‘Gen Y’ it’s just...
The whole charge-to-mobile market is rich in potential, but still waiting for its big moment. In a new report, analyst Ovum forecasts that moment may be imminent. It says charge to bill revenues will increase to $24.7 billion in 2019 from...
Customers can now purchase and then display rail tickets and passes using the The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s mTicket app for iPhone and Android (Blackberry coming soon). The tickets are displayed as an encrypted barcode and as a ‘human readable’ ticket....
The eye-catching success of a handful of mobile money services – M-pesa, obviously – that use airtime as a currency has got the card firms a bit worried. They don’t want to see vast new markets using new types of currency....
