Mobile Payments Market Guide 2012
April 5, 2012 – 11:05 am | No Comment

The online newspaper The Paypers has recently published The Mobile Payments Market Guide 2012. This useful document provides an in-depth look at the global mobile financial services ecosystem, combining insight from key stakeholders and top-level industry thought leaders with a comprehensive overview of market players (MNOs, banks, technology providers, phone manufacturers or payment processors).

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Why all payments innovations are rubbish (presentation)
May 10, 2010 – 11:20 am | No Comment

Technology could potentially bring a lot of innovation in the banking space but how innovation can eventually happen without changing old infrastructures and regulations?

What is a “social payment” ?
April 11, 2010 – 12:24 pm | No Comment

What is a social payment? Using a social network does not make it “social”, according to the interesting article written by Russ Jones on PAYMENTSVIEWS

gWallet launches new format for Virtual Currency offers
March 1, 2010 – 10:41 am | No Comment

gWallet, a recently launched company that partners with both brands and game developers to bring users virtual currency offers, is launching a new format for offers. Called the Brand Bar, the offers to earn virtual currency appears in a bar across the top of a social game on Facebook.

PayPal Becomes A Facebook Credits Payment Provider
February 19, 2010 – 8:44 am | No Comment
PayPal Becomes A Facebook Credits Payment Provider

Yesterday Facebook disclosed another component of the company’s payment strategy: a partnership with PayPal.

In my view this a wise choice because building a world class payment solution from scratch would have been very challenging and a competition with such a big player (PayPal has now more than 81 million accounts) very stiff.

Pay with Facebook
February 15, 2010 – 12:03 pm | No Comment
Pay with Facebook

The 75 million monthly active users playing Zynga’s FarmVille have a now new way to buy virtual tractors and seeds; they’ll be able to “Pay With Facebook.”

More on Blippy | via NetBanker
January 26, 2010 – 11:38 am | No Comment

Blippy, a kind of Twitter meets Yodlee service, allows users to stream their purchase activity to the startup’s website. Users can choose to publish data from credit and debit cards, bank accounts, and/or directly from purchase activity at ecommerce partners sites . It’s the ecommerce transaction stream that provides the richest data describing the actual product purchased or rented rather than just a dollar total.