By Sirpa Nordlund, Executive Director of Mobey Forum What a difference twelve months can make. Industry conversations at last year’s Mobey Day, (Mobey Forum’s annual open conference for all mobile money stakeholders) told of an industry undergoing major disruption. At this year’s event in October, the industry vibe had changed almost beyond recognition, particularly in…
by Jordi Guaus, Chair at Mobey Forum
This year, Mobey Forum celebrates 15 years since its inception in 2000. From humble beginnings, the association has survived and flourished where other similar organisations have faded. In this blog, we talk to Mobey’s first Chairman, Bo Harald, and current Chairman, Jordi Guaus, to see how the organisation has evolved, the successes it has achieved and what the future holds.
For a while already Mobey Forum has been hearing rumours that Samsung is planning a rival for Apple Pay, and has predicted this model in the NFC Business Model Whitepaper (2011). According to industry expectations, Samsung plans to announce SamsungPay during the S6 launch at the Mobile World Congress on March 2nd.
Mobile Payments: Predictions – For This Year and For 10 Years from Now Predictions from Bell ID’s David Worthington on EMV Mobile Payments look very different in 10 years from now. Deloitte predicts that a tipping point will take place in 2015: 5 % of the NFC phones in the market will be used for…