March 05, 2010
Consumer Payment Choice
Remaining Relevant: Seven Consumer Trends to Watch—and Act OnMasterCard, in collaboration with GfK Roper Consulting, has identified the 7consumer trends that are having the greatest impact on the banking &...
March 05, 2010
Why PayPal Will Open Up the Walled Garden of Payments
Why Paypal May Do to Payments What Apple Did to the Mobile Ecosystem The 4th quarter of 2009 is definitely starting to feel like the dawn of a new...
March 05, 2010
The App Wars: Amazon’s vs. PayPal’s Strategy
Will MasterCard and Visa Fight Too? Amazon and PayPal have both announced aggressive efforts to persuade developers to use their payment technologies. Each of them has opened up a...
March 05, 2010
The Invisible Engines that Drive Innovation and Transform Industries
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...
March 05, 2010
What’s in the Cloud for Payments?
When we speak of “payments in the cloud” we are using the term in a broader sense than it is usually used in the information technology world. Cloud computing simply...
March 02, 2010
5 Burning Questions: ViVOtech’s Mohammad Khan
In this exclusive NEXTcast interview, ViVOtech’s President and Founder, Mohammad Khan answers five burning questions on “what’s next” with mobile payments. ViVOtech, a leading end-to-end enabler of next generation mobile...
February 26, 2010
Merchants, Payments and Convergence
5 Burning Questions: ViVOtech’s President and Founder, Mohammad KahnIn this exclusive NEXTcast interview Mohammad Khan sat down in the Briefing Room hot seat to discuss the 5 burning questions on...
February 25, 2010
Prepaid Cards: A Tool for Getting by or Getting Ahead?
Prepaid cards are useful for customers’ day-to-day money management needs, but are the cards helping them achieve larger financial goals? Meet Virginia, Ariel and Leo (the names used in...
February 24, 2010
Is Visa Becoming Serious about Mobile?
Visa‘s appointment of industry veteran Bill Gajda is an important signal, but structural challenges to innovation will have to be addressed. Ever since its Initial Public Offering prospectus Visa...
