Fareed Jawad

VP - Product Development at Spreedly Inc

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Bio Electronic Payments Innovation. m-payments, Financial Inclusion and Outreach through payment schemes and branch-less banking. Well grounded in traditional Card based payment schemes and solutions. Career History Computer Engineer - class of 1993, Bangalore University. Started off coding (C) but moved into networking for a couple of years and moved to Los Angeles. My stint with Electronic Payments began in 1998 with Verifone/HP. Since then have been mostly with Professional Services, Engineering and Soluti

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IPGs and us - An Insider view on Internet Payments

31 Oct 2012

This blog post is a kind of a walk down the memory lane for me starting from the early days of e-Commerce – think SET protocol to the evolutionary ratification of SSL to be used as the de-facto standard for checkout and payments on shopping websites – circa 1998 when I was at VeriFone (right when it was acquired by HP) to the convergence of the vi...

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Discover trials Natural Security biometric payments

Was'nt there a startup that folded that did the same thing called "Pay by Touch"?

08 Nov 2012 Reply Read article

Checklist Item 4: Get KYC started with segmentation.

Absolutely agree on this - historically this segmentation did exist at various levels of retail and lending but these days, we hardly see "Academician" / "Engineer" / "Doctor" or other segmentation. Probably a case of taking equal opportunity too far in one sense but this was dropped in favor of "you are composed of your accounts and assets" approach - more discriminatory in my opinion and may have partly responsible for some of the meltdown crises...Strangely though, this professional segmentation is still used for lead generation but it stops there :-) Great blog - Keep them coming.

23 Mar 2010 Reply Read article

12 Zeroes - Or Was That 20?

Fully agree...unfortunately these policies are almost a "fund raising" exercise and never really translate to a grass roots benefit which fuels the real market with real money. On a side note, I am also concerned that rather than shore up the environment, carbon credits will also become "funny" money very soon - and the impact will be greater on the planet because everyone pretty much will try to offset irreversible damage to ecology with such sources of funds as "bail out" packages..brr..

06 Apr 2009 Reply Read article