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Will US retailers find DIY works for mobile payments?

By Terfel RobertsMovements in the mobile payment market are really hotting up. We heard last week [1] that US retailers, including Wal-Mart, Target and 7-Eleven, are taking a stake in the mobile...

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The wrong elephant in the room

By Richard HandfordAmazon has a press event scheduled for this week (6 September) at which the rumour mill predicts a number of announcements from the internet giant including a new Kindle Touch...

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Underbanked US consumers have a right to mobile money too

By Steve TaylorRarely a day goes by without news of a mobile payments innovation entering the market. Whether it’s designed to facilitate a payment, manage rewards and offers, conduct online banking,...

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The bottom line

by Richard HandfordMichael Joseph is an iconic figure in mobile money circles. After all, he used to be CEO of Safaricom which runs M-Pesa, the most famous mobile money service in the world. Last year,...

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Black Friday's grey day?

by Richard HandfordAmericans love Black Friday, unlike us foreigners who, until we have learnt better, think its name commemorates a misfortune such as a stockmarket crash. In fact, it is of course a...

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Three’s a crowd

The UK has had a sometimes fractious relationship with the rest of Europe, always wanting to go its own way and make its own rules. But right now in the telecoms market, things are a little different....

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Shopping Around

MCX, the group of leading US retailers led by Walmart and Target that is building its own mobile payment system, took another step forward this week [1] by making the choice of technology for its...

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Cash in hand

Western Union is an iconic brand. The yellow-and-black logo is ubiquitous on streets across the world where it is associated, particularly for immigrants, with sending money home to their families. But...

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Finger-tappin’ good

Colonel Sanders’ success was built on frying chicken better than his rivals. Apparently, the key for the KFC founder was using a pressure fryer, a much faster approach than conventional pan frying. In...

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Google Wallet’s high turnover

First there was Vikas Gupta [1] in January 2012. About the same time Rob von Behren made departure, [2] followed by Jonathan Wall and Marc Freed-Finnegan, who left to do their own thing. In June,...

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UK start-ups aim to be future global giants

Newcomers to the UK payments industry hope to find the elusive formula for worldwide success, as Richard Handford discovers. Over the past decade, internet payment services, such as PayPal and more...

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Unlikely partners in payments?

Big names in the payments and technology sectors are teaming up in the cause of interoperability and good business sense, as Charles Orton-Jones reports. What's afoot in the payments industry? Over the...

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Seeking redemption in a multichannel world

Quantifying the return on investment in marketing is notoriously problematic, but savvy minds and smart technology are closing the redemption loop, as Dan Matthews reports. For decades retailers have...

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Profiting from hard times

Last week, the UK’s Office for National Statistics published data showing that UK GDP grew by 0.6 per cent in the second quarter of the year. The government hailed the figure as a sign of economic...

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PayPal’s no-brainer

NEW BLOG: In a blog entitled “Why We've Agreed to Acquire Braintree”, PayPal CEO David Marcus listed the well-known mobile apps already served by the payment giant’s newly acquired unit. “I admire...

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Bitcoin’s bit part for mobile money

NEW BLOG: From central bankers and academics to speculators, everyone is getting over-excited about Bitcoin. Everyone that is apart from consumers, very few of whom have first-hand experience of buying...

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Kakao climbs on mobile money bandwagon

NEW BLOG: Sirgoo Lee, the co-CEO of Kakao, used his keynote at last week’s Mobile Asia Expo to announce that the high-flying messaging app is planning a move into mobile money. It was one of those...

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Ending M-Pesa’s solo story

NEW BLOG: The mobile industry has always preached interoperability because helping one another delivers mutual benefits. The past evidence quoted in favour of interoperability includes both SMS and...

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Mobile wallets – still waiting for the breakthrough moment

BLOG: The mobile phone has become the remote control to so much in our lives - from emailing work colleagues to Skyping with our loved ones to listening to our favourite music. But how many of us have...

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The HCE tap is open, let NFC services flow

[1]I was prepared for Mobey Forum’s third annual Mobey Day event to be a lively affair. Bringing banks together with, amongst others, GSMA, chip manufacturers and mobile payment software providers to...

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Updating loyalty schemes in era of mobile commerce

It’s a familiar scene – you are in the supermarket, department store or food hall and you are about to pay for goods; at this point, just before you leave the building, you present a loyalty card and...

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Banks find themselves tongue-tied in conversation with younger users

NEW BLOG: No one likes bankers much these days. But millennials appear to hate them more than the rest of us. And there is plenty of research to prove it. A 2014 survey in the UK by Scratch, a...

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Now you see it, now you don’t

Biometric authentication looms large in the summer handset line-up of Japan’s NTT Docomo. With Fujitsu, the operator unveiled what it claimed was the world’s first smartphone with iris recognition [1]....

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Blog: Can cashless India make mobile money’s year?

Trillions of dollars worth of transactions are still made in cash around the world each year, but if India's brave money experiment proves to be an inspiration to other countries we could see mobile...

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Blog: Mobile wallets suffer identity crisis in Europe

Juniper Research’s latest analysis into the mobile wallet market showed Europe lagging behind almost every other region in its transaction value forecast despite high levels of tech adoption and...

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Blog: Finance sector engages millennials using mobile

The generational shift placing millennials as the biggest group of earners globally put financial institutions on a new mobile-focused trajectory, Rocky Scopelliti, Global Strategy Leader, Telstra,...

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Blog: Vodacom faces battle for Africa money lead

Calendar Q2 figures for many of Africa’s most prevalent operator groups show excellent results across the board for mobile money, placing the size of Vodacom’s goal to become the continent’s dominant...

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Blog: Can new rules rouse mobile money giants?

During MWC19 Barcelona, the GSMA released its annual mobile money report [1], which showed further astounding growth in Africa. But there remains several large countries in the region with low...

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Intelligence Brief: Can Asian MNOs play in mobile pay?

Mobile payments are booming in Asia. Led by China, other markets across the region are following suit, keen to leverage cashless technology to accelerate the transition to a digital society. Until now...

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Blog: Will Facebook’s Libra get the Like it needs?

It is already one of the most controversial and troubled plays that is yet to see the light of day. Facebook’s Libra payments project hit the headlines again this week after it was reported that the...

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