Mobile Payments

Commentary
Handicapping PayPal and Google in the Mobile Transaction Platform Race
January 08, 2012

Ah, September! It’s the beginning of fall: back to school, football, sweaters here in Boston, and now apparently, the race to the physical point of sale – mobile payments style. PayPal let the world in on its mobile payments vision two weeks ago at an...

Making Consumers Pay More for Cards Will Dampen Payments Innovation
January 08, 2012

A famous American philosopher by the name of Yogi Berra once said that it’s tough to make predictions—especially about the future. And of course any economist worth their salt knows that you should never make forecasts that can be disproved in your own lifetime. (I...