Here, we bring together commentary from one of the world's leading experts on emerging payments and a strategic advisor to CEOs and Boards of multinational players in the payments and commerce space - Karen Webster.
Uh oh. More bad news for the banks. And this time it doesn’t come from the regulators. The source of bad news is the Millennial generation who have given traditional banks a big “meh” when it comes to the importance they place on banks vis...
I feel like I’m back in school. In preparing for The Innovation Project’s lead off session with Professor Michael Porter, the father of competitive strategy, and 10 CEOs from across the established and emerging payments/commerce ecosystem, I decided to do a “five forces” framework analysis...
Today, the nattering nabobs of bitcoin negativity are smugly pointing to mounting evidence that Bitcoin is just one big bubble on its way to becoming something pretty itsy-bitsy. With prices flopping between $1,100, $500, $900, and then below $100, all in the space of a...
Miss out on the major announcements from this year’s Mobile World Congress in Spain? Don’t worry, our slideshow (which you can find below) covers the big payments-related deals that came out of Barcelona over the past few days. These include announcements from: – MasterCard –...
03 March 2014 We’re T-minus two weeks and a few days until the March 19 kick off of Innovation Project 2014. It’s been a real thrill over the last few months to get inside the heads of the innovators who will be speaking, participating in...
Intense competition from online and mobile channels, pricing pressures and shrinking margins, high fixed costs, changing customer demographics, and eroding revenue opportunities. Sound familiar? It should. It’s exactly what drove the newspaper industry into a death spiral about 20 years ago, and it’s what’s playing...
I had the chance to host a Mobile Insiders Series discussion on loyalty and payments on Friday, and the conversation was really fascinating. My discussion partner was Stephanie Swain, who is now VP of Retail for Aimia but who previously was in charge of financial...
Someone once said that even number years are always better than odd number years. If that’s true then 2014 has a lot to live up to! But as we all turn our focus to 2014 after a two week holiday respite, and wave bye-bye to...
