BETTER-MOBILE-BANKING

One of the problems of living in New Zealand (note to the geographically challenged: Find the Pacific Ocean, find the big blob bottom left, we’re the two islands to the right of the big blob), is that we’re far, far away from the rest of the ‘civilised’ world. That means that we miss out on [...]

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I was talking to someone about Finnovate 2007 and they looked down the list of comnpanies presenting and had this to say:
Mobile banking vendors - cashflow is still king
The recent demise of ex-mobile banking leaders Meridea (out of Finland and previously using the now-vacant URL - www.meridea.com) brings to light some interesting considerations for those [...]

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James Gardener has an interesting piece on the outsourcing of IT infrastructure in banks. Thought provoking stuff to be sure, and it seems that this coupled with recent events (P2P Lending in NZ & GPay) means that (should those technologies take off), the banking sector is under a fair bit of pressure from substitutable products. [...]

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OK not market share of PayPal vs. Google Checkout, but here is some data on traffic figures. This from November last year.
Better is this piece claiming 1% for Google (April 2007). JPMorgan reported in January 2007 that Google had 6% market share
Lastly this report from July 2007 indicates that its har (impossible) to take on [...]

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My recent post about the Google Checkout vs. PayPal figures in the context of the possible success of GPay (mobile payments solution) ignores one very important distinction: GPay does not have a PayPal to compete with. There is no gigantic behemoth with years of experience in freezing people’s accounts without warning payment processing experience with [...]

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Hat tip to Rob Findlay for mentioning Google’s entry into the mobile payments arena. I hope they buy the gpay.com domain soon - the guy’s spelling offends me!
So what does a behemoth like Google getting into mobile payments mean? Well to tell you the truth I’m not sure: what impact have they had on online [...]

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