PoF 7 – Biometrics, Apple Pay, and Privacy: a Talk with Steve Wilson
Apple Pay’s announcement has brought attention to biometrics and their role in payments security and to the broader, if amorphous, concept of online identity. Steve Wilson of Constellation Research and...
View ArticleMobile Payments – What Entrepreneurs Need to Know
Recorded about a month ago by VC firm Matrix Partners, Glenbrook’s Scott Loftesness and Dana Stalder of Matrix Partners discuss the evolution of mobile payments, the business model failure of Softcard,...
View ArticleThe Ten Most Annoying Things About Apple Watch
Message delay from phone to watch – I can hear my phone signaling a message has arrived but it takes a while to show up on my watch You have to remember to turn both watch and iPhone back on after...
View ArticleIndia – A Good Approach for Financial Inclusion
You may have heard about the Reserve Bank of India’s decision to create a new category of “payments banks”. Recently, the Reserve Bank of India approved 11 applicant institutions (out of 41 who had...
View ArticleWho Are You, Really? – FIDO’s Biometric Authentication
Since the first promise to pay was made, knowing who you’re dealing with has been a requirement. Authenticating the identity of a trading partner – a customer, an accountholder, a business or even a...
View ArticleInside the Digital Payments Workshop
As new forms of digital payments begin to take hold, the old assumptions no longer work. What does it mean to issue a card when there is no card? How can transactions be risk-managed when payments...
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Incredible India!
Photo: Scott Loftesness A few weeks ago I joined my client Raj Jain, CEO of RS Software, for my third visit to India. RS Software is headquartered in Kolkata which was our first stop for the annual...
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Demystifying India’s Digital Payment Infrastructure
There is a growing curiosity about India’s payments systems. These systems, and their role in the “India stack”, have been the subject of many articles speculating their importance in shaping India’s...
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