February 26, 2010
Merchants, Payments and Convergence

5 Burning Questions: ViVOtech’s President and Founder, Mohammad KahnIn this exclusive NEXTcast interview Mohammad Khan sat down in the Briefing Room hot seat to discuss the 5 burning questions on...

February 25, 2010
Prepaid Cards: A Tool for Getting by or Getting Ahead?

Prepaid cards are useful for customers’ day-to-day money management needs, but are the cards helping them achieve larger financial goals?   Meet Virginia, Ariel and Leo (the names used in...

February 24, 2010
Is Visa Becoming Serious about Mobile?

Visa‘s appointment of industry veteran Bill Gajda is an important signal, but structural challenges to innovation will have to be addressed.   Ever since its Initial Public Offering prospectus Visa...

February 24, 2010
Innovations in Prepaid

Prepaid cards are useful for customers’ day-to-day money management needs, but are the cards helping them achieve larger financial goals? How TSYS Prepaid is Reinventing Corporate Payments TSYS Executive Scott...

February 23, 2010
TxVia: Prepaid Card Processing with a PaaS Delivery Model

Prepaid cards are amongst the newest entrants in a 50-year continuum of network branded card products that have transformed the way people pay. As with credit and debit cards, prepaid...

February 18, 2010
What’s Next for Gemalto at MWC 2010

A round-up of announcements of innovative products and solutions from Gemalto at Mobile World Congress 2010 Gemalto Teams with IBM to Deliver an Improved Identity Security Solution That Simplifies Authentication...

February 18, 2010
NFC and the Trough of Disillusionment

The announcement by the GSMA and its partners of another NFC demonstration pilot highlights how Near Field Communication is caught in the “trough of disillusionment.” Commerce innovators shouldn’t despair, the...

February 15, 2010
NFC: Past, Present and Future

The announcement by the GSMA and its partners of another NFC demonstration pilot highlights how Near Field Communication is caught in the “trough of disillusionment.” Commerce innovators shouldn’t despair, the...

January 16, 2010
Cooperation Models for the Development of Mobile Payment Solutions

Introduction The technological advances in the field of near-field contactless communications (NFC) and the development of sophisticated mobile applications have enabled mobile phones to become a potential means of payment....