Last for a while

I'm trying to get work in the Strategic Consulting field (wish me luck), so I'm putting the blog on hiatus. Feel free to email me in the interim...

Oh and thanks for dropping by...

Bank Stories

Everyone has a story about a bank and their (sometime) silly rules and the hoops that they make you jump through. Here's David Birch's and on the subject of rants about banks, here's Paul Kedrosky quoting Martin Wolff.

Are all calculators the same?

Apparently not.

m-commerce proposition was more pie in the sky than fridge on the train

Interesting take on the reality of the mobile payments arena versus the marketing hyperbole: m-commerce proposition was more pie in the sky than fridge on the train.

Happy Holidays

Hi everybody.
This will be my last post for 2007. I'm off on my first holiday in three years and celebrating completion of my MBA with Honours.
I'd like to wish all my readers a happy and safe holiday period

Off Topic: Ice Hockey

Admittedly a little unrelated to Mobile Payments and Banking, this story from the Wall Street Journal discusses a topic most people who play ice hockey eventually discuss: what if your goalie literally filled the net?

Bill Me Later, Amazon

Saul Hansell over a the NY Times writes how Bill Me Later has been accepted by Amazon. Apparently it took seven years and a chunk of equity to get them to adopt the payment system. Bill Me Later only exists because of the automated systems for approving credit and the distrust or unwillingness to use credit cards over the net. What I particularly like about Bill Me Later is the cheaper fees (1.5% vs 2%) than credit cards charge and the great fit it has for micro transactions.