Forest for the Trees

I, along with everyone else, was struck by the comments of Barclay’s CEO recently. If you missed them, Jes Stanley said he was not worried about fintech challenging Barclays. This was his justification:

“Take for example a fintech company that has a payments system platform, and for…

I came across this article on Visa’s acquisition of Cardinal Commerce. I was going to tweet a response but realised my commentary could not be contained in 140 characters.

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“At Visa our goal is…

I read with interest a release about Fifth Third Bank promoting its MasterPass engagement. One statement stood out:

Fifth Third customers that use Android devices will be the first to use this service at more than one million contactless payment…

Writing a post about how we’re going about building Onefill — a product I’ve dedicated much of the last 12 months to — has filled me with an immense amount of pride. We have an awesome team and I am truly humbled to be part of it. We all understand that building a great product is ultimately about…

Here is a presentation I made at the Sydney chapter of Next Money Meetup.

In response to my post on the problems of Apple Pay adoption, some respondents accurately pointed out that Uber has integrated with Apple Pay since 2014. I would like to take this opportunity to address this apparent error, and further develop my argument.