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Can banks compete with PayPal?

Yesterday I listened to a talk from PayPal at one of Europe’s largest online innovation and developer conferences, LeWeb. The company was incredibly bullish about the online ecommerce market and explained that its business was now not only derived from online retailers and merchants but also offline, brick and mortar organisations that are seeking...

09 December 2010 /payments

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Payments-in-the-cloud

Rumours have been rife over the past month about a potential deal between Google and PayPal that would see the latter powering the payment system on the Android Market. Last week an announcement about the deal went up on the PayPal blog, which was then immediately removed. Either way, we can be confident that an official announcement will follow s...

01 November 2010 /payments

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A more open approach to innovation

The recent Finextra webcast on retail banking innovation caused some a debate from various industry experts. The general consensus seemed to be that banks are severely constrained in terms of how much information they can share about innovation: The mania to protect intellectual property and reputation means that innovation teams are constrained f...

30 September 2010 /payments

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Who's next in online payments innovation?

The web is currently awash with innovations to monetise social networks and digital business. Google has continued its buying spree by acquiring Jambool which means that it can integrate virtual currency software to its services. The move is indicative of the efforts of many in the industry at the moment to establish the yet-to-be-defined blueprin...

13 September 2010 /payments

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