December 05, 2011
Social Commerce Strategies 2012
We’re living and working during an unprecedented time of activity in social media. IPO’s on social commodities are in the billions. The “Arab Spring” brought to life the power of Twitter and...
December 05, 2011
Visa-Rwanda Partnership to Drive Electronic Financial Services
Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) and the Government of Rwanda today announced a wide-reaching Charter of Collaboration to develop localized solutions to extend access to financial services to local and international...
July 11, 2011
Development Implications of Mobile Money
[This paper is based on presentations by the author at The Macroeconomics of Mobile Money Conference at Columbia Business School, April 2, 2010, and at the United Nations Commission on...
June 25, 2011
Session 4: Social Commerce
Highlights – Why social networks are important to commerce – Why merchants (should) care – Who’s leading and lagging – What communities are ready to be commerce enabled and how...
April 21, 2011
The Blackstone Group Reports First Quarter 2011 Results
The Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE: BX) today reported its first quarter 2011 results. Economic Net Income (“ENI”) was $568.1 million for the first quarter of 2011, an...
September 16, 2010
Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
Jun 28, 2010, 7:00am Washington, DC – Americans have faced the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Millions have lost their jobs, businesses have failed, housing prices have dropped,...
August 06, 2010
Competition aspects of new mobile payment networks: The case of...
December 2008 Introduction This note reviews the Spanish experience with regulating the competition aspects of new mobile payment networks in the absence of formal technical standards. The saga is...
June 27, 2010
Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
Washington, DC – Americans have faced the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Millions have lost their jobs, businesses have failed, housing prices have dropped, and savings were wiped...
March 25, 2010
The “New and Improved” PayPal
Recent announcements show how PayPal is taking on the mantle of Innovation Leader in the payment industry Last week was again rich in announcements for PayPal with the launch...