Kevin Harrington

Category: payments

  • The world has gone mobile, so why is m-commerce lagging?

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    The mobile world descended on Barcelona this week where tens of thousands of delegates discussed how mobile is disrupting multiple industry sectors. However, there is still one glaring barrier to total world domination – the industry’s failure to crack big-ticket purchases on mobile. More on this from our friends at Marketing Week >>> The world has gone mobile,…

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  • How people really use mobile

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    This is the year of the mobile; payments acquiring through iZettle and their competitors is the hot topic. At the same time the phrase M-POS or MPOS (mobile point of sale) is a frequent visitor to conversations about payments. Innovation is fantastic and will lead to many successful new business. Equally many will fail, some…

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  • Whiteknights FC has become an iZettler

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    Whiteknights Football Club has been delivering youth football in Reading since 1986 and is and FA Charter Status club. We have over 150 players and the club has always been run and administered by volunteers. Collecting payments and subscriptions from busy parents is always a challenge and it can take a long time. Part of the problem…

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    iZettle card reader for Whiteknights Football Club

  • Text me your money

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    Eight institutions in the UK have agreed to back a service to allow us to text money to people. This list is: Barclays, Cumberland Building Society, Danske Bank, HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, Metro Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland and Santander. The service is predicted to start in 2014. Revolutionary? I don’t think so… In April…

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  • NCR and PayPal agreement makes sense

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    Most press releases and announcements fail to pass the ‘so what’ test. They might be important to the client company but they are often dull and uninteresting. Then along comes a release that tells of things that will really make a difference. And here is one of these gems: NCR Corporation and PayPal, Inc., today announced an agreement to…

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  • Contactless Payments Stalled by ‘Speed’

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    More than 140,000 contactless payment terminals have been set up in the UK to date. Perhaps more of the industry’s budget should have been towards marketing as well as for the installation of the technology to facilitate such payments. Read more >>> Contactless payments stalled by ‘speed’ | Opinion | Marketing Week.

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    Contactless Payments Stalled by Speed