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...

A Central Bank Takes on Mobile Payments

by Elizabeth McQuerry | Oct 16, 2014

Ecuador’s Central Bank has embarked on an ambitious course to launch an affordable and widely available mobile payment scheme.  In fact, it will be the national wallet. With some uncertainty, it appears that Ecuador’s initiative may be the second central bank effort...

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:...

Out of Africa: Watching the Evolution of Mobile Money

by Bryan Derman | Sep 30, 2014

It turns out you don’t have to be unbanked to like M-Pesa I had the opportunity earlier this month to visit the mecca of mobile payments, which –with all due respect to the recent accomplishments in Cupertino — remains Nairobi, Kenya. The “Kenyan miracle”...

Apple Pay: It’s Your Life?

by Carol Coye Benson | Sep 12, 2014

These are some personal observations on Apple Pay, after an exciting week of reading announcements from Apple and reactions from bloggers. (If you want a Glenbrook business view on the announcement, read Wednesday’s post by my partner George Peabody.) For...