The Rise of Digital Identity Wallets: Will banks be left behind?
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Co-Innovation Across Regions
By Douglas Hartung, Director of Global Software Research and Strategy Diebold. Diebold recently joined the members-only Mobey Forum, a self-described “global industry association empowering banks and other financial institutions to lead in the future of mobile financial services.” As you might imagine, Diebold’s industry leadership in integrating mobile capabilities with services enabled at self-service terminals was…
The Song of the Sirens: Payments Lessons from the Music Industry
By Sirpa Nordlund, Executive Director, Mobey Forum As Apple and the other handset giants turn their attention to financial services through the launch of their various ‘Pay’ solutions, will banks face a similar fate to that of the music industry, which Apple revolutionized with the iPod and iTunes? Are their business models under the same…
2015 in Review: The Year that Fintech Hit Form
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…
Game of Phones: The Giants’ Power Play in Mobile Payments
Given the degree of ‘cool’ with which Apple endows nearly all it does, it’s easy to forget that just a few years ago, NFC based mobile payments were viewed as a missed opportunity, strangled at birth by the inability of banks and MNOs to agree business terms. Now, thanks to HCE and to Apple Pay,…