Innovations in Card Acceptance

by scott | Jan 22, 2011

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...

One Hand Clapping!

by scott | Jan 19, 2011

That’s actually two big hands clapping for Starbucks – but I’m using the one hand clapping metaphor to help make a point! Congratulations to Starbucks for taking the lead in mobile payments in the U.S. with its announcement this morning that now all...

When Worlds Collide [NACHA Payments 2010]

by jayd | Apr 26, 2010

I’m here in Seattle today at NACHA’s Payments 2010 conference along with Russ and Erin.  I’m mulling over a couple things I heard in sessions today, trying to draw the line between them. Early this morning, I sat in on a briefing by eCom Advisors...

Field Report from 2010 ETA

by formadaadmin | Apr 14, 2010

Another year has flown by and here I am at the 2010 ETA Annual Meeting. I love to walk through the exhibit hall and see “what’s hot,” what’s changed, and what never changes at this ISO conference.  So here goes… Before I arrived I tried to predict what the hot areas...

iPhone 3.0 – Payments in Perspective

by Russ Jones | Mar 24, 2009

Apple created a lot of buzz in the industry last week when it previewed the new capabilities of iPhone OS 3.0. Leading the list of new features, surprisingly, was a payments-related enhancement called “In App Purchase”. I missed the briefing, but saw this...