Jacqueline Chilton Mobile Banking & Payments Mobile Technology

Report from CTIA - Mobile Payments Eventually

The CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment conference was held in San Francisco this week. Theme was “Wireless – It’s how you use it.” When it comes to mobile payments and mCommerce, I could not agree more.

Conferences & Meetings Jacqueline Chilton Mobile Banking & Payments Mobile Technology Writings

Report from CTIA - Mobile Payments Eventually

by Jacqueline Chilton The CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment conference was held in San Francisco this week. Theme was “Wireless – It’s how you use it.” When it comes to mobile payments and mCommerce, I could not agree more.

Bill Payment & Presentment Bryan Derman

Checking Up on Bill Presentment

CheckFree and AT&T Mobility recently announced that AT&T would begin supporting electronic bill presentment through CheckFree-powered bank bill pay sites. AT&T Mobility’s more than 70 million customers will now be able to receive their bills electronically at their bank’s bill pay site if the bank is a CheckFree customer. AT&T Mobility joins 400 other billers […]

Guest Post Jim Salters Writings

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 […]

B2B Conferences & Meetings Research Round Up

NACHA's Business-to-Business Payments Strategy [NACHA Payments]

[This is just one of my series of posts from the NACHA Payments 2008 conference in Las Vegas.] NACHA's Business-to-Business Payments Strategy [NACHA Payments] Alenka Grealish Manager Director, Banking Services, Celent, LLC Julie Hedlund AAP Senior Director, Business Payments, NACHA – The Electronic Payments Association Synopsis from Conference Program While electronic B2B payments through the […]

Economic Outlook

SF Fed Reserve President Yellen on Credit, Housing, Commodities, and the Economy

SF Federal Reserve President & CEO Janet Yellen addressed the CFA Annual Conference in Vancouver today. Her remarks addressed credit, housing, commodities, and her economic outlook. Excerpt (emphasis mine): Financial Markets and the Credit Crunch […] This benign view [of underlying risks] may well have been linked, in part, to rapid transformations taking place in […]

Banking Conferences & Meetings ECommerce Mobile Banking & Payments San Francisco Technology

Live Blogging from Finovate Startup - Afternoon Session

I am live blogging from Finovate Startup in San Francisco. Jim Bruene and his team at NetBanker have gathered 40 startups, rebrandings, and company debuts in online banking and finance. Each participant has a brief 5 minutes to demo their product so I’ll be typing as fast as I can. (Please forgive typos!) AFTERNOON SESSION […]

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Live Blogging from Finovate Startup - Morning Session

I am live blogging from Finovate Startup in San Francisco. Jim Bruene and his team at NetBanker have gathered 40 startups, rebrandings, and company debuts in online banking and finance. Each participant has a brief 5 minutes to demo their product so I’ll be typing as fast as I can. (Please forgive typos!) MORNING SESSION […]

Check 21

Check 21: Open Discussion Among Bankers, Billers, and Vendors (TAWPI Conference)

[I am in Las Vegas for the TAWPI Payments in Transition conference – these are my notes from one of the sessions. An index of all of the sessions and links to the rest of my notes is here. – EMc] Check 21 Update Speaker from the Federal Reserve was unavailable at the last minute […]

Back Office Conversion Receivables Remote Deposit Capture

Payments in Transition Town Hall Meeting (TAWPI Conference)

[I am in Las Vegas for the TAWPI Payments in Transition conference – these are my notes from one of the sessions. An index of all of the sessions and links to the rest of my notes is here. – EMc] Payments in Transition Town Hall MeetingJoseph Sass, Senior Regional Manager, US BankJay Matyas, VP […]

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Blogging from the TAWPI Payments in Transition Conference

I am in Las Vegas for the fifth annual TAWPI Payments in Transition conference (with the largest attendance yet: approximately 140 billers, bankers and vendors). TAWPI – the Association for Work Process Improvement – is focused on payments automation, distributed capture, and imaging/forms processing. The Federal Reserve's latest research indicates that 50% of consumer-to-business (C2B) […]

Banking Payments News Research Round Up

Fed: Check Volume Decreasing at a Faster Rate

A study released by the Federal Reserve Board's Financial Services Policy Committee  on Tuesday, based on a sample of 30,000 checks from the image archive Viewpointe, indicates that businesses write nearly 40% of all checks and receive nearly three-quarters of all checks. Almost half of the checks written by consumers are for payments to businesses, […]

Banking Payments News San Francisco Technology

BarCampBank San Francisco - March 29

I've been intrigued by the idea of a BarCamp – informal, unstructured, participant-organized conferences where people with similar interests share and learn in an open environment – since I read about them in other (mostly technology) blogs. There is an upcoming banking/finance BarCamp in San Francisco (well, actually at UC Berkeley) and I just signed […]

ACH Decoupled Debit NACHA

ACH @ POS

I spoke last week with Elliott McEntee, President and CEO of NACHA about two current issues – NACHA’s reaction to “de-coupled debits” and the progress of the Secure Vault Payments program. Decoupled Debit – Background Decoupled debit programs, announced by both Capital One and HSBC (as issuers) and Tempo (as a processor) take a normal […]

Payments News

SEPA Takes Effect Today, yet Businesses Must Wait for Benefits

Today the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) becomes a reality, enabling credit transfers throughout the SEPA region. Consumers and companies will be able to make cross border payments in euros as easily as making payments within their home country. Card payments have been in effect since January 1st and debit transfers are slated for November […]