03 Jun, 2012
I had the opportunity to attend two great payments conferences in the past month – Card Forum in Orlando, and NFC Solutions Summit in San Francisco. It got me to thinking about all the exciting developments on the horizon for payments. Two new made-up buzz words you often hear lately: Gamification and Appification. Gamification refers [...]
11 Mar, 2011
NYPAY hosted its third networking event on February 23, 2011 with a sell-out crowd of nearly 60 attendees. The topic, “Payments 2020: Crystal Ball into the Payments Industry” captured the imagination and generated plenty of enthusiasm. I moderated the five panelists in a lively discussion that sparked plenty of interest in NYPAY’s next event, planned [...]
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07 Mar, 2011
The Smart Card Alliance held its third annual Payments Summit in Salt Lake City February 16-17, 2011. The theme was NFC and there was plenty of buzz and excitement. The message from Tim Attinger of Market Platform Dynamics was convergence, mobile as commerce generator and innovation vehicle. NFC is not just a replacement for the magnetic stripe [...]
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Also tagged contactless payments fraud US credit debit smart cards, innovation, ISIS, mag stripe, Market Platform Dynamics, Mercator, mobile, mobile payments, NFC, Payment, payment fraud, Payments, pymnts.com, Smart Card Alliance, smart cards
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09 Feb, 2011
EMV chip technology and the future of payments in the United States are the subjects of a new white paper released today from the Smart Card Alliance Payments Council. The paper, “Card Payments Roadmap in the United States: How Will EMV Impact the Future Payments Infrastructure?” I am on the payments committee and this thoughtful [...]
10 Dec, 2010
Listen to our interview at on PYMNTS.COM “Rewards in Real-Time, Mobile is Making Its Move“ where we talk about Sexy mobile rewards programs 10 X response rate for mobile vs e-mail or mail Growth in real-time rewards at POS Mobile more disruptive than the Internet Bold prediction for debit interchange
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Also tagged chip, debit, Durbin, innovation, interchange, Market Platform Dynamics, mobile, mobile payments, Payment, Payments, POS, processing, pymnts.com, rewards
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02 Nov, 2010
The Smart Card Alliance Payments Council announced new officers on November 1st, and announced an expanded charter including all U.S. chip-enabled payments including EMV, contactless, NFC, mobile, and e-commerce. The Payments Council, an unbiased forum in which industry stakeholders align and provide direction for the future good of the industry, is made up of over 150 [...]
06 May, 2010
Chip-enabled mobile marketing provides rational and emotional incentives and leverages the characteristics of the customer relationship, whether they are transactors or “loyals.” An upcoming Smart Card Alliance white paper, “Chip-Enabled Mobile Marketing,” due out next month, will outline twenty trials, pilots and implementations of chip-based mobile marketing from around the world. It’s exciting to see [...]
09 Mar, 2010
Guess What’s Coming to America? NFC and EMV! I was fortunate for the opportunity to attend the Smart Card Alliance’s third annual Payment Summit in Salt Lake City last week, and as usual I am “charged up” by the experience of networking with colleagues who are all as passionate about payments as I [...]
10 Feb, 2010
The Smart Card Alliance January 26, 2010 webinar “The Top 10 Reasons U.S. Should Consider EMV,” got me to thinking about the industry-wide impediments for EMV deployment. See http://tinyurl.com/yk7al8u. How big a problem is fraud in the US? US card fraud numbers are all over the board – somewhere between $2 and $17 billion address able by EMV. [...]