Amorphous Rise of Prepaid Mobile Commerce Stands to Hasten Banks Disintermediation, Threatening Traditional Current Account Services and Banks’ Relationships with Customers 25 June 2014 – The rapid convergence of prepaid and mobile commerce is creating significant opportunities for merchants and other stakeholder groups to push banks and other day-to-day money management service providers down the…
[avatar user=”sirpa” size=”original” align=”left” link=”https://mobeyforum.org/dt_team/sirpa-nordlund/” target=”_blank”] by Sirpa Nordlund Executive Director at Mobey Forum [/avatar] Business travel can be a chore. For over 10 years now, I have been going back to a certain hotel when I travel to Paris. It is a family-run business, with the same people on reception every time. It is constantly…
Association to champion value of mobile financial services in corporate environments 7 April 2014 – In a bid to help businesses keep pace with the rapidly evolving consumer mobile financial services (MFS) market, Mobey Forum, the global bank driven business association, has launched a Mobile Corporate Banking Workgroup. The group will provide strategic options for…
[avatar user=”sirpa” size=”original” align=”left” link=”https://mobeyforum.org/dt_team/sirpa-nordlund/” target=”_blank”] by Sirpa Nordlund Executive Director at Mobey Forum [/avatar] My heart goes out to mobile network operators (MNOs), having invested so heavily in near field communication (NFC). So much noise and so little music. In what some may interpret as cruelty, the major payment schemes have chosen GSMA’s Mobile World…