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In New York, in the early 1990s, there was a spate of serial robberies where muggers specifically targeted young Puerto Rican bus boys walking home late at night (or early morning) after a shift at a ...
We all know the statistics about the incredible growth of social media in the last years: there are now 1.5 billion social network users globally. But what came as a bit of a surprise to me (I was rea...
This post was originally called Atheists versus Evangelicals...then I walked away from it. Then I toyed with the idea of 'Battlefield Payments'...but what I really wanted to talk about was more than p...
Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, famously said that “everything significant we are working on is around mobile,” reflecting the current core focus on mobile in the technology industry – som...
Date Posted: 20 Oct 2017 Job Reference: G3RR-7TT Company: Nerdom Retail Bank Position Title: Chief Executive Officer Reports to: Board of Directors Reporting to this position: Chief Experience Office...
Some industry commentators have been predicting the death of banking is near. With disintermediation ripe and new entrants springing up everywhere, one thing is for sure, banking will never be the sam...
Transport for Greater Manchester (TGM) recently announced it will start rolling out a new smart ticketing system across the UK’s third biggest city. It’s a move that is well overdue and is sure to vas...
Just in case you missed it ... The iPhone 5 has finally landed!! While the usual queues greeted the latest instalment of the world’s best loved smartphone, in mobile payment circles, all the talk is a...
I recently had the opportunity to attend Gamification & Banking: a passing fad or a serious business, at the BBVA Innovation Center in Madrid. It’s part of series of talks and discussions around i...
The world of Financial Services is at a serious crossroads. Whilst many in the Finance profession sniggered at the recent motivations and methods of the worldwide “Occupy Wall Street” movement – a de...
Both the mobile phone and a good dose of retail therapy are much loved by the UK public. Now it appears the two have joined forces to take the high street by storm. A recent Ofcom report, which set ou...
Famous for its mobile payments solution, Jack Dorsey’s Square is already exceptionally popular with merchants in the US. For several years the innovative payments dongle has allowed small businesses (...