For most of the developed business world, the phrase “time is money,” is about using time better in order to maximize capital production. For most of India — the cash-centric, developing economy of 1.3 billion people — the phrase “time is money” has an entirely...
Whether it’s a conversation in the U.S. or China, whether it’s about commerce online or via bricks-and-mortar — for retailers and e-tailors, it’s about developing strategies that demonstrate to its core consumer base that its strategy is all about the “customer experience.” Major U.S. retailers like Best...
When it comes to choices for alternative financing providers, the U.K.’s SMEs benefit from having ample choices — but does having more choices always make the lending process easier? Recent survey data from the Funding Centre — the content-led alternative finance aggregator — shows that...
The problem with the mobile revolution is that it has been “coming” for so long without ever actually fully arriving that the idea of eminent ignition has become somewhat easy to discount. Mobile has been technologically accessible to a mass number of Americans for almost...
There is an old adage that says “March goes in like a lion but goes out like a lamb,” that one could conceivably imagine the staff at Apple trying to re-engineer these days. “March comes in like a hungry lion and goes out like a...
Most reports about mobile payments and mobile transactions often provide pockets of information — only giving a piece of information here and a piece there to help the payments ecosystem understand how consumers are using mobile devices. But in the Consumers and Mobile Financial 2015...
For those who have spent the last month or so wondering why exactly Google decided to purchase Softcard, there’s some good news and some bad news. The bad news: you will probably never know. The good news: you understand it about as well as Google’s...
Payments and technology is converging like never before, as traditional players mash up their capabilities and ideas with the new payments kids on the block. But they’re all looking for the same thing when it comes to merging the two concepts — a way to turn...
Financial inclusion and the concept of the unbanked has become a buzzword when it comes to mobile payments innovations. Who are the unbanked, who are the mobile money companies reaching, and where are there still gaps? And why? These are the questions mobile money companies are working rapidly to solve as...
