Payments Watch

Using PayPal Once a Quarter

John Januszczak — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:46:08 +0000

How many customers does PayPal have, and how often do they use the service? How does this compare to a big bank? An article on PayPal’s Nebraska operations centre provides some interesting insight into the use of PayPal:
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Can We Stop Putting “2.0″ After Everything

John Januszczak — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:19:19 +0000

It seems like if you want to reinvigorate anything these days you simply put “2.0″ after it and it magically becomes cutting edge, cool and “now” - definitely demanding of one’s attention if they are on top of the most current trends. It would seem that even the conservative banking industry is not immune from the desire to 2.0-ify itself. What is particularly annoying is when the “2.0″ is just blatant marketing.
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How the FED Should Do a Payments Study

John Januszczak — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 04:50:05 +0000

Social finance sites such as Wesabe are not just web based applications that allow users to track spending, but provide personalized advice such as feedback from peers that specifically addresses one’s specific spending and saving patterns. They also provide an interesting opportunity for improving upon, and creating more timely payments studies such as the Federal Reserve’s Retail Payments Research Project.
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What’s Next - Pay By Sight?

John Januszczak — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:26:20 +0000

First there was Pay By Touch, which uses fingerprints to authenticate purchasers. Now there is Pay By Voice (actually branded as Voice Pay) which uses biometric voice analysis to authenticate purchasers.
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Interesting Payments Trend

John Januszczak — Wed, 23 May 2007 13:56:30 +0000

Did you ever wonder what the search volume and news reference volume for various payment types are on the internet, how they compare to each other, and how they trend over time?
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Seven Trends in the Payment Industry

John Januszczak — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 21:21:02 +0000

At an investor and analyst conference earlier this week, First Data CEO Ric Duques provided seven trends that First Data sees in the payments industry
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The End of Payments

John Januszczak — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:50:56 +0000

…payments related revenue for banks anyway: This is a good post by James Gardner, a financial services veteran who writes the BankerVision blog.

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