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Andres Fontao Partner at finnovista
Hoping to unwind on the AVE back to Madrid after a frenetic 2 days at Mobile World Congress, I can't help but ponder my insights and learnings as we cut across the Spanish countryside at 300 KM/H. It's been an exciting two days, focused primarily on meeting with financial institutions and scouting for innovations and possible disruptions in fintec...
28 February 2013
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
So, the UK has woken up to, yet another, casualty on its high street. While the US is still sobbing into their glucose monitors at the loss of Twinkies, the UK is waving goodbye to suburban town centre identikit stalwarts such as camera retailer Jessops and CD dispenser HMV. (Thank God for Starbucks and William Hill or I'd never be able to find my...
15 January 2013 /retail
In New York, in the early 1990s, there was a spate of serial robberies where muggers specifically targeted young Puerto Rican bus boys walking home late at night (or early morning) after a shift at a restaurant. Why, you ask? Why did the Gotham thieves target bus boys - as opposed to mailmen or trash collectors or late night revellers or any other ...
04 December 2012 /payments
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We all know the statistics about the incredible growth of social media in the last years: there are now 1.5 billion social network users globally. But what came as a bit of a surprise to me (I was reading a white paper recently prepared by GFT and IESE, “The Impact of Social Media on the Financial Services Sector”) was that social networking is al...
23 November 2012
This post was originally called Atheists versus Evangelicals...then I walked away from it. Then I toyed with the idea of 'Battlefield Payments'...but what I really wanted to talk about was more than payments and I'm really not that big a John Travolta fan anymore. Then two (well, really three) things happened at Sibos in Osaka this year. (Yes, I ...
21 November 2012 /payments /sibos
Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, famously said that “everything significant we are working on is around mobile,” reflecting the current core focus on mobile in the technology industry – something mirrored throughout financial services and retail. Schmidt’s quote also highlights the multitude of different mobile offerings currently on th...
05 November 2012
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22 October 2012 /payments /retail
Some industry commentators have been predicting the death of banking is near. With disintermediation ripe and new entrants springing up everywhere, one thing is for sure, banking will never be the same again. Here is my view on when services, channels, technology and processes will become extinct in the banking industry. Let me know your thoughts....
17 October 2012 /payments /retail
Transport for Greater Manchester (TGM) recently announced it will start rolling out a new smart ticketing system across the UK’s third biggest city. It’s a move that is well overdue and is sure to vastly improve many thousands of Mancunians’ daily commutes. However, when first hearing the news, it wasn’t the efficiencies that immediately caught my...
01 October 2012 /payments
Just in case you missed it ... The iPhone 5 has finally landed!! While the usual queues greeted the latest instalment of the world’s best loved smartphone, in mobile payment circles, all the talk is about what hasn’t been included rather than the array of new features that have. The decision to omit NFC capabilities by Tim Cook et al has surprised...
25 September 2012 /retail
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