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I predict that payment predictions will be wrong

Having read many over-ambitious “Next year will be the year of X” statements, I avoid prediction precision myself. The game of replacing “X” with this year’s, nearly-there technology, and caveating the prediction formula with a few extra parameters is fun, but not risk free. As the Danish quantum physicist Nils Bohr said, “Prediction is very di...

19 December 2014 /payments

Lu Zurawski

Clap along; API-ness is the truth

It’s that time of year where the voices of earnest business initiatives may struggle to be heard above the cacophony of festive karaoke singing. Given the right circumstances, I may even warble a bit of Curtis Mayfield myself (“Move On Up. Towards your destination, though you may find from time to time some complication…”). The party-goers at UK H...

08 December 2014 /payments

Lu Zurawski

Payment walls are crumbling - is it time for Payments EBRD?

Twenty-five years ago, the fall of the Berlin Wall saw the creation of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Its mission was to find capital to help re-build national infrastructures mainly in the former Eastern Bloc countries. It invested in long-term projects that are tricky to finance, recognising that “well-planned infrastructu...

21 November 2014 /payments /regulation

Lu Zurawski

How a Payments Project brought down a Government

The commercial horrors of Halloween seem to have gained popularity over the UK’s indigenous “Bonfire Night” on the 5th of November. So I thought I’d do my bit to push back for a less US-centric way of getting kids out begging in the streets at night-time. So here are the opening questions in my new cultural quiz: Q1. When the Houses of Parliament i...

04 November 2014 /payments

Lu Zurawski

Mobile Payments: And now it’s Facebook’s turn...

Chances are you have been hearing a lot about mobile payments lately. Thanks to the likes of Apple Pay, everyone wants a piece of the action, with Google and Amazon working on plans to enter the market. Even PayPal has been forced to respond to Apple’s announcement in what is becoming a very noisy space indeed. Last week it was Facebook's turn whe...

17 October 2014 /payments

Lu Zurawski

What I talk about when I talk about running

Dodging the rains, I have just returned home after a run. I prefer to cycle but a run was a necessary and efficient way of re-balancing the calorific excesses of the previous day. As one of the kids has pinched my headphones, there was to be no inspirational high-beat music today, My internal sound track was instead formed from thoughts from an int...

10 October 2014

Lu Zurawski

Contactless travel, where will it take us?

The acceptance of contactless bank cards by Transport for London (TfL) marks the end of a hugely successful and significant first phase for electronic ticketing and payments for the company. Despite hiccups on the way, large numbers of the general public have learned to love and accept the Oyster card. TfL deserves real praise for teaching us a n...

25 September 2014 /payments

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