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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 t...
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 ...
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 m...
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...
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 marke...
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 h...
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 h...