June 07, 2011
Jingle All the Way This Summer: Zappos Mobile Team Preps...
Name: Ian Klassen Title: Mobile Program Manager at Zappos.com (Related: Zappos Puts Best Foot Forward with New Mobile Strategy) My crowning achievement is… Reading the positive feedback from customers. The...
June 07, 2011
Discover & BJ’sAnnounce Gift Card Offer
Discover Bank and BJ’s Wholesale Club are offering BJ’s members a gift card for opening a Discover savings account. BJ’s Inner Circle members will receive a $25 BJ’s Gift Card...
May 31, 2011
Will GoldMoney’s Business Model Have the Midas Touch?
Name: James Turk Title: Founder & Chairman at GoldMoney.com My crowning achievement is… Founding GoldMoney, which is growing rapidly and now safeguards over $2 billion of assets owned by 18,300...
May 27, 2011
Summer Reading List for Payments Bookworms
Memorial Day marks the start of summer, which means it is time to start planning your agenda of beach reads and lounge chair literature. Whether you’re into mobile money, its...
May 25, 2011
Analysis: BoA, Chase and Wells Fargo Launch P2P Joint Venture
Despite the challenges faced by previous payments consortia (think Spectrum, Pariter and ISIS), many continue to believe that partnership and “co-opetition” are the best ways to compete in emerging payments...
May 25, 2011
Earthquake Aftermath in Haiti: The Rise of Mobile Money Adoption...
Introduction In a cybercafé in downtown Port-au-Prince, Jean Yves deposits money into his TchoTcho Mobile account. Michel, his brother who owns the business, recommended that he register for this mobile...
May 25, 2011
S-Commerce- A Fourth Retail Channel: An Overview of Social Commerce...
Introduction This section of the Lydian Journal examines the world of social commerce, or as some have described it, the fourth retail channel. Four distinct elements define this commerce...
May 25, 2011
Bank of America, Chase, Wells Fargo Form New Venture to...
Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo today announced that they have formed a new venture to enable their customers to move money more conveniently and safely using a...
May 24, 2011
Low-Income Americans Use Financial Products to Make Ends Meet
Today, the Financial Access Initiative (FAI) at New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service announced the launch of an important new study to better understand the financial lives...
The pandemic is making cash all but a nonstarter for today’s no touch customers – and restaurants that can’t deliver touchless payments will find themselves in hot water. In the Order To Eat Tracker, Chris Birkinshaw, CEO of poke bowl chain Aloha Poke Co., explains why the rapid shift to cashless transactions has made contactless offerings imperative.
