[This is just one of my series of posts from the NACHA Payments 2008 conference in Las Vegas.] This year's keynote presentation was by Peter E. Raskind, President and CEO of National City. The topic was supposedly "Executing Payment Strategies in a Changing...
[This is just one of my series of posts from the NACHA Payments 2008 conference in Las Vegas.] Overall Observations & NACHA Leadership InterviewACH Transaction Growth: Over All and B2B - More than 18 billion automated clearing house (ACH) payments were made in...
I took a slight detour en route home from Las Vegas (via Death Valley and Yosemite - spectacular!) and just finished writing up my observations. This year is the largest NACHA Payments conference to date (they get bigger and bigger each year) with nearly three...
I am live blogging from Finovate Startup in San Francisco. Jim Bruene and his team at NetBanker gathered 40 startups, rebrandings, and company debuts in online banking and finance. Each participant had a brief 5 minutes to demo their product. We're back from the...
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...
Browsing at Best Buy and suspect there is a better deal at Amazon.com? Now savvy consumers can comparison shop and order Amazon.com products from their cell phone via text message. Of course it's handy when you are simply out and about, or more likely in my case,...
Obopay recently announced that "customers can now use their existing bank accounts to send and receive money via their mobile phone. With Obopay's mobile money transfer, non- customers can pick up payments without signing up for Obopay. These innovations...
NACHA is joining the mobile banking bandwagon. The ACH organization has formed a Mobile Banking Work Group under the leadership of its Internet Council. The goal is to develop an ACH payment platform strategy for mobile banking.The Mobile Banking Work Group leadership...
This week David Birch posted an insightful commentary on the business case for mobile payment (as opposed to mobile banking). His discussion was in part a response to a study by Deloitte and partially prompted by new mobile payment projects recently announced by two...
New forecasts from Juniper Research show that around 52 million consumers will adopt new mobile technologies such as NFC (Near Field Communication) and other physical mobile payment methods to pay for everyday goods and services by 2011. This will help drive the...
