Payments

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…

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.

With Apple’s recent announcement to offer Apple Pay checkout on Safari, much has been said about the game changing impact this will have on online payments. In almost all the publicity this move by Apple has garnered, very little attention has been paid to…