Boy, did I ever step in it last week. I was speaking to a group of payments professionals in Denver and followed...
Here we are – 19 days into a new year and midway in the month known apparently as “divorce month.” According to...
Last week, I was given a copy of the UBS report on Apple Pay. It claims that the launch of Apple Pay...
What does retail today have in common with retail in 1982? Everything – and nothing all at the same time. And if...
I wrote about 260,000 words over the last year summarizing my take on the many developments taking place in payments and commerce....
Yep. It’s that time of the year - when we pause to reflect on the year that was as we prepare to...
Last week I laid out the 10 things that happened in 2014 that I believe will shape the direction of payments for...
Ah, yes, it’s the most magical time of the year. Predicting what the next year holds for all of us in payments....

Talk about poking a hornet’s nest. MPD Founder and economist, David Evans, wrote a piece on Friday about Apple Pay that got...
“Vague but exciting.” These three words could be used to describe just about any early-stage idea when it’s first presented. I’ll bet...

“The path to any success is lined with disasters.” Adam Davidson wrote a pretty thought-provoking article on failure that was published in...

I’m sure you’ve heard by now that the internet was on fire last week, and nearly broke. Yes, there was that Kim...

There are three things that I think we’d all agree are irrefutable outcomes of the launch of Apple Pay. Apple Pay has...

Whoever said there’s no such thing as bad PR obviously wasn’t on the receiving end of the whooping that Rite Aid, CVS...

Ring, ring. Hi, Rite Aid. This is CurrentC (or a CurrentC rep) calling. You might not remember this since it was a...

The Scariest Things In Payments Friday is Halloween, a holiday in the U.S. that involves people – young and old – dressing...

Oh, what a five years it has been! On October 20, 2009, Warren Buffet (via a recorded video interview) helped us launch...

When explaining the economic “DNA” of Market Platform Dynamics, I always describe it as having its roots in the work of a...

The launch of Apple Pay has kept everyone in payments pretty busy speculating about its impact to others with digital wallet/account ambitions....
It’s way above my pay grade to weigh in on Carl Icahn’s proposal to Apple to accelerate its share buybacks. But the letter made...

There’s no doubt that Apple Pay has a lot going for it. It’s the payment method birthed by a beloved consumer brand...

There’s nothing better than a juicy story. And the juicy story this week was what is said to have lead up to...

Just another Tuesday in September. In case you missed it, big news was made Tuesday (Sept. 30) in payments-land. eBay and PayPal...
The launch of Apple Pay has started a lot of conversations about winners and losers in the mobile payments space. The fact...
Want some fodder for that next water cooler convo? Here’s our weekly take on what’s movin’ and shakin’ across the Apple Pay...

While the world’s now focused on Apple Pay, there’s another “A” player that’s just as capable of shaking things up in mobile...
Regardless of Apple Pay’s long run success, we’ve all just witnessed an inflection point in payments – a point in time after...

Say hello to Apple Pay. It’s the new kid on the payments block and, depending on how things unfold, it could be...

How Innovative Is Payments? No one really knows how to consistently define or measure innovation. Hear me out. Tuesday (Sept. 9) is...
Point. Click. Save. Pay. That describes the experience that Blackhawk Network will enable its physical gift card users to have with their...

Even though the official end of Summer isn’t for another few weeks, the impending turn of the calendar pages from August to...
Can Apple With NFC Ignite Mobile Payments? Well, we’re just about 3 weeks away now from Apple’s “big reveal.” September 9, 2014,...

One of my colleagues recently shared an anecdote about something she observed while in a hotel lobby in San Francisco. A group...
OpenTable reinvented the restaurant reservation dining scene 16 years ago and more recently introduced mobile payments into the mix. But is Apple...

Getting consumers hooked on something new is every innovator’s dream. There’s only one big problem: Consumers don’t break old habits easily. Psychologists...

Visa Checkout launched last week as part of Visa’s efforts to be the biggest digital payments player on the planet just like...

Facebook and Twitter made news last week when each introduced payment options. But MPD CEO Karen Webster says that the real player...

Financial Times columnist John Gapper got a check for a dollar in the mail which prompted him to write a piece that...

Sometimes it rains on the fourth of July and the only thing to do is binge watch Seinfeld. However, in the hands...

Jeff Bezos sent people invited to the launch of the Fire phone a children’s book about a man who painted his house...

It is hard to imagine Harvard professors as anything but the sorts of people inclined to shop at J. Crew and with...

The slow path to digital wallets ignition has caused some in the business to say that they’re all but dead and more...

Old news but new analysis. Check out Karen Webster’s take on the news that stopped the payments world from spinning on its...

Last week’s Apple WWDC keynote has prompted a bunch of Monday morning quarterbacking with respect to Apple’s plans for devices, software and...

Today is the day that we might actually get a peek into Apple’s playbook on mobile payments. Anyone who hasn’t totally tuned...

Several reports surfaced last week that reaffirmed what we’ve all suspected – rolling out EMV in the US is going to be...

While everyone in payments has been focused on another player out west whose name begins with an “A” no one has really...

Everybody knows the ancient story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. “Open Sesame” were the magic words that opened a cave...

What begins with an 'A' and is the biggest threat to the payments networks since Judge Leon? ACH. I know, you thought...

The payments version of the rumor mill has been going full tilt about whether Square’s running out of cash, whether it’s up...