September 29, 2011
ShopText CEO Talks AOL Deal; Cracking the Chicken-and-Egg Couponing Conundrum
ShopText has teamed up with AOL Shortcuts to leverage merchants and consumers who are still feeling out the murky waters of mobile payments. The partnership creates a heavier direct-to-card footprint...
September 27, 2011
The Criminalization of Serious Cartel Conduct in Australia
Manish Agarwal, David Round, May 14, 2010 On July 24, 2009, the Trade Practices Amendment (Cartel Conduct and Other Measures) Act 2009 (“Cartels Act”) came into force in Australia, introducing...
September 16, 2011
An Invitation to the CPI Film Festival
Competition policy may be involved, intricate, and complicated, but it needs to be taught–not only to consumers but also to enterprises. And all competition authorities, established or developing, must consider...
September 14, 2011
For Fair and Free Market Competition
Sep 13, 2011 For Fair and Free Market Competition Japan Fair Trade Commission (“JFTC”) strives for proactive and comprehensive public relations in order to make our concrete activities, enforcement of...
September 14, 2011
Introducing the First CPI Film Festival
Lindsay McSweeney, Sep 13, 2011 Presenting the CPI Film Festival A recurrent theme in global competition policy is the need to communicate—important not only for countries just developing their competition...
August 15, 2011
Analysis: After Google Buys Motorola, What’s Next for the Payments...
Just when you thought things couldn’t possibly get more exciting in the mobile world, Google up and buys Motorola (view press release). Google’s planned acquisition of Motorola is just plain...
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 29, 2011
Inside Iran: An Analysis of the Factors Influencing Success of...
Background and Introduction Lacking payment systems becomes a bottleneck for the vision of the Information Economy. In many cases, the payments of a fraction of a cent, the so-called...
May 13, 2011
Former Senior Execs from eBay, Oracle and Visa Unveil Latest...
May 11, 2011 A team of veterans from some of the biggest companies in banking, retail and e-commerce – including former eBay and Best Buy CMO Mike Linton, former Visa...
As real-time payments continue to grow around the world, some countries are expected to see significant adoption by 2026. In this this edition of the “Real-Time Payments World Map,” a collaboration with The Clearing House, PYMNTS explores Italy, Kenya, Japan, Mexico and Malaysia, countries with very different projected growth.