Tag: POS
As I was in Canada, I thought I might mention that a detailed investigation into the cost of payments at POS just released by the Bank of Canada shows (absolutely as I would have predicted given the scale and dynamics of the Canadian market) that Debit cards are the least costly in terms of total […]
A funny thing happened on the way to Merchant Payment Ecosystem in Berlin. Three funny things, actually. I tried to use an app to buy something on the way and I got a message saying “transaction failed”. It didn’t tell me why. I’m sure the service provider didn’t know either, as they just got a […]
It’s Vegas, so time for a glass of champagne. Luckily, they had some in the green room for the W3C panel on “One-Click Buying: New W3C Standards for Web Payments” so I poured myself a large one and went on stage to toast the guys while they discussed the working draft of the W3C Payments Request […]
For our industry there is only one problem with this headline. It is not in our industry. Nor is it airlines or hotels, where ‘dynamic’ pricing has been annoying customers at busy times for many years. It is retail – B&Q are trialing dynamic pricing at a flagship store in France. It works by like […]
Last week I made a passionate plea to mobile operators to take advantage of consumer and market lethargy in order to win in mobile payments. Since that writing, two events have occurred that have reinforced and added to those beliefs. First, waiting on POS upgrades is a waste of time, not only because being mobile […]
Mobile pay chatter is heating up with MWC upon us. Too much of it is nonsense. All of the bickering over which mobile wallet will win is pointless. The argument that NFC has to be implemented across retailers for mobile pay to take off is tiresome. But there may be an opportunity for mobile operators […]
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