October 27, 2010
Mobile 206 Lesson 3: Emerging Mobile Implications
Mobile 206 Lesson 3: Emerging Mobile Evolution Lesson 3 Discussion Board: What kind of value proposition would a consumer need, and how rich would it have to be, to get...
October 27, 2010
World Payments Report 2010: Payments Volumes Resilient in the Crisis
I am very excited about the launch of the sixth annual World Payments Report 2010, outlining the latest global trends and competitive strategies. Many have wondered if payments businesses would...
October 25, 2010
‘Invisible Engines’ Series
The use of software platforms to drive innovation and transform industries has exploded since the 2006 publication of my book Invisible Engines with MIT Professor and former Sloan School Dean...
October 13, 2010
Famed Lawyer Looks to Dethrone Durbin
The Durbin interchange fee caps are going to get tossed by the courts says famed legal scholar and advocate Richard Epstein in an exclusive PYMNTS.com video interview. He’s got a...
September 19, 2010
Is Borrowing Bad? The Critical Debate We Aren’t Having
There’s a critical debate this country must have but isn’t. Is borrowing money a bad thing that consumers and small businesses should be discouraged from doing in part by restraining...
September 17, 2010
NYPAY Payments Group Event: Chasing the Mobile Money- What is...
Javelin Research forecasts 49 million U.S. adults will be reaching for their mobile devices this year to conduct banking activities. New forms of payment like PayPal, Amazon Payments, Zong, Bango,...
August 26, 2010
Why Every Payments Product Needs an Ignition Strategy
Hard data are not available but based on my experience billions of dollars each year go poof in the payments industry from investments in products that crash and burn soon...
August 19, 2010
Is Behavioral Economics In-Control?
MasterCard’s new In-Control Card (the name speaks for itself but more details on their Product Profile)–illustrates the good side of behavioral economics. Behavioral economics is the new (within economist-time) field...
August 19, 2010
August Blog ‘o Blogs
Our August Blog o’ Blogs is full of questions: How should e-books be priced? Can competition help revive the Russian economy? Does the FTC have too much time on...