Mobile Payment Unintended Consequences (or How I Locked Myself Out of the House, Again)

by Erin McCune | Jan 15, 2015

I am writing this post sitting on the front steps of our house in San Francisco. I have locked myself out three times recently, more than I have in the past three decades. Is it dementia? No, I blame mobile payments. Last summer I bought a case for my iPhone that had...

Adventures in Attribution – The Apple vs. MCX Dialog

by Bryan Derman | Nov 10, 2014

Like many payments industry insiders, we have been following the recent impassioned industry dialog about the relative merits of Apple Pay and MCX’s CurrentC wallet with a combination of amusement and despair. The barbs and accusations being exchanged by the rival...

ApplePay, NFC, QR (Oh My!) and the New POS

by jayd | Oct 9, 2014

First There is a Mountain, Then There is No Mountain, Then There is… I’ve been thinking about what the future of the point of sale environment will look like from a consumer perspective. Of course, 10 years ago, we all knew what it was going to look like:...

Apple Pay Stirs, But Doesn’t Shake, the Mobile Landscape

by George Peabody | Sep 10, 2014

The Apple Pay announcement finally came yesterday and the company’s orchestration of much of the complex and fractious card payments ecosystem demonstrates Apple’s insight into how the current payments ecosystem works and how it must be aligned in order to...

Dispatch from the Smart Card Alliance Payments Conference

by George Peabody | Feb 20, 2014

For those companies and individuals most committed to building the EMV and NFC ecosystems, the place to be February 3rd through 7th was Salt Lake City where the Smart Card Alliance hosted both an EMV Migration Forum meeting and its annual Payments Summit.  Over 525...