ROAP – Chipotle Is Earning My Loyalty Today!

Over the last month or two, I’ve become strangely addicted to the Chipotle iPhone app. That’s the app that lets me order my lunchtime Chipotle salad in something like ten seconds flat. Why am I so addicted? Because of the beautiful integration of this...

Bergeron’s Rules for Mobile Payments

In a VeriFone press release today titled “VeriFone Says Merchant Buy-In Key to Success of Mobile Commerce”, VeriFone CEO Doug Bergeron outlined six “rules” that he said “industry participants need to adhere to in order to ensure success...

The Case for EMV Chip Cards in the US?

In one of my prior lives, I made the phone call that triggered what eventually became the industry standard for chip card deployment now known as EMV (Europay-MasterCard-Visa). That call was made almost 20 years ago. At the time, I was at Visa where we were spending a...

A Bubble in Mobile Payments?

I’m sure you’ve seen it – there’s been so much “buzz” in the press over the last few weeks about mobile payments. Yet, in our partners’ meeting at Glenbrook earlier this week, I told my colleagues that if I knew of a way to short “mobile...

Innovations in Card Acceptance

What Drives Innovation? More often than not, the successful innovations that surprise us come from disrupters who focus in a laser-like way on unserved market opportunities. In doing so, they are able to successfully fly below the radar of the incumbents (to use...