In this exclusive NEXTcast interview, David S. Evans is joined by Jing Yang, Director of Corporate Strategy at TSYS. Jing has had numerous roles since joining TSYS in 2001, most notable was her role in the establishment of CUP Data, TSYS’ joint venture with China...
In this exclusive NEXTcast interview, David S. Evans is joined by Ignacio Mas, author of several papers on M-PESA, to discuss Mobile Payments go Viral: M-PESA in Kenya. M-PESA is an electronic P2P payment and stored value system that relies on a mobile phone’s SIM...
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Until two years ago, foreign banks wanted desperately to gain exposure in China, hoping to take advantage of the rise of a credit culture among the fast growing Chinese middle class. But after years of effort, banks found that China’s entry into the World Trade...
Judging by the breathy press reports yesterday of the new, sort of, kind of, maybe joint venture between mobile behemoths AT&T and Verizon (with T-Mobile in the mix too) MasterCard and Visa are sitting around conference tables today white-knuckle-gripping their blackberries and iPhones. Bloomberg first...
Alya Guseva is Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston University. She has been studying Russia’s emerging market for credit cards for more than 10 years. She is the author of Into the Red: The Birth of the Credit Card Market in Postcommunist Russia (Stanford 2008),...
In this paper, Marc Bourreau and Marianne Verdier study the development of mobile payments as an innovation in developed countries. In particular, we introduce five cooperation models that have emerged or could emerge between banks, mobile network operators, and payment systems, for the development of...