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September 10, 2009
Mobile Financial Services for the Next Billion Customers: A Panel Discussion
Last Thursday evening I attended a superb mobile payment panel organized by mPayConnect and co-hosted by the Wharton and Harvard MBA alumni associations at the Wharton West campus in San Francisco. The evening’s topic was From Afghanistan to Silicon Valley: Mobile Financial Services for the Next Billion Customers. Menekse Gencer of mPayConnect moderated and brought […]
July 7, 2009
Western Union Building Out its Mobile and FI Strategy
Just before the 4th of July holiday my partner Bryan Derman and I had a wide-ranging conversation with Matt Dill, SVP and head of Western Union’s Digital Ventures. Western Union capitalizes on two key trends: an increasing number of people that live and work abroad (per the World Bank an estimated 200 million people) and […]
July 21, 2008
Mobile P2P Payments Continue to Evolve in the US
by Jim Salters One of the “hot topics” in payments in the US market is the evolution of mobile payments – from “inevitable idea” to reality. Obopay and PayPal Mobile are both now over 2 years old – having been launched in the spring of 2006. TextPayMe, a mobile payment service that launched in late […]
June 14, 2004
Beware the Doves?
by Scott Loftesness Reflections on the PayPal/GE Consumer Finance Alliance On June 8th, 2004, PayPal quietly announced it was partnering with GE Capital Consumer Card Company to begin offering credit lines to customers that want extended payment terms for any PayPal purchase. PayPal’s business members started receiving direct mail pieces the following day offering new […]
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