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OBeP OBoy!
I'm just back from a fascinating ten day visit to India - and, frankly, I'm still in a bit of a daze from that amazing experience. More to come about my visit there. Tonight, as I'm catching up on the happenings while I was gone, I came across a...
M-banking in the US and UK and the Necessity of a Consumer Focus
The potential of mobile banking, for the realization of ‘anywhere, at anytime’ transactions, is well documented. However, interest is starting to develop regarding a more consumer-orientated vision of what mobile banking and payments can offer....
Survey Results: U.S. Market Contactless Terminal Penetration
Last week we asked readers to help us capture a snapshot of U.S. market contactless/RFID terminalization. We were pleased to get 43 brave souls to respond. Here are the (admittedly anything but scientific) results: We also asked respondents to...
Your Views on Contactless POS Deployments in the USA?
We're looking for some impressions - from those of you "in the know" and from those of you who are just observant - about the state of contactless reader deployment at merchants in the USA. Below is a quick survey - we'd appreciate you giving us...
The Card Payments Ecosystem – and Fragmentation
In a post titled "Great since day one", Marco Arment blogs about what makes the iPhone different - in essence he writes that Apple makes products that are great today. Android isn't.Reading his post brought to mind the fragmented nature of the...
More Musings About Location-based Data and Payment Card Risk Management
If you've been following along, you know that I'm just back from a week in Europe. Before heading over, I took the extra precaution of calling a couple of my card issuers to let them know I was going to be traveling - in the hopes that my...
Recent News
Powering AI Commerce With the New Agent Payments Protocol (AP2)
"Google announced the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), an open protocol developed with leading payments and technology companies to securely initiate and transact agent-led payments across platforms. The protocol can be used as an extension of the Agent2Agent (A2A)...
Zelle® Hits New Highs. Two Billion in Transactions and Nearly $600 Billion in Payments in First Half of 2025
"Early Warning Services, LLC., the network operator of Zelle®, today announced that Zelle experienced double-digit year-over-year growth across key segments in the first six months of 2025: American consumers and small businesses sent and received 2 billion payments,...
Visa Launches Visa Private in UAE — A First-Of-Its-Kind Payment Experience for High-Net-Worth Individuals
"Visa has announced the launch of Visa Private, an exclusive premium offering tailored for high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) who seek a level of service and benefits that go beyond conventional card experiences. Available first in the UAE before a wider GCC rollout,...
BNP Paribas Partners With Wero for E-commerce Payment Solutions
"A step further towards European sovereignty in the payments sector: EPI (European Payments Initiative), in which BNP Paribas holds a stake, is actively pursuing its goal of creating a benchmark digital payment solution in Europe with Wero. In its first year of...

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