Musings on the Future of Contactless Payments

David Birch has a great post on the future of contactless payments vs. phone payments:I've heard more and more people — on the issuing side — talk about skipping over contactless cards completely and just moving directly to phones of one form or...

Demo Videos from Finovate Startup Posted Online – Very Cool

Back in April I attended Finovate Startup here in San Francisco and live blogged the event. It was a whirlwind of 40 startup/young financial technology companies presenting 5 min demos (no scripted PowerPoint!) of their products/new features. Lots of energy, great...

PayPal is 10 Years Old (and Bigger than You Think)

Over at FinanSer/SWIFT Community, Chris Skinner observes PayPal's 10th birthday with a round up of stats demonstrating the remarkable growth of PayPal and shift toward metrics like active users rather than registered users as their business matures. Excerpt:In...

Citi to Whitelabel Ariba EIPP Solution

From Bank Technology News:Ariba, a spend management solutions firm, has agreed to a first-ever private-label agreement for its invoice and payments technology with Citi’s Global Transaction Services unit. Citi plans to integrate Ariba with its own e-payment and...

GTNews: Corporate Payments & SEPA & SWIFT

A couple articles of interest at GTNews this week: Payments in Need of StandardisationJonathan Williams, Experian PaymentsCorporate treasurers are facing pressures to consolidate and standardise their processes – how can they balance these requirements?SEPA...