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The introduction of these technologies in Ghana has created an enabling platform for consumers to use their mobile phones to pay for goods and services
Contactless payments may be convenient – but they also make it easier to overspend.
Most people would be content to pull off one of the world’s top five IPOs, but Jack Ma is on course for his second.
Plenty of Western officials and media outlets have criticized Libra – but it’s not meant for them.
A dormant ‘cash mountain’ marks a nadir for London’s contactless travel card, but trouble has been brewing for some time.
China’s most popular social media app WeChat is on the rise in Australia thanks to demand from Chinese students and tourists. Here’s what you need to know if you plan to use it.
A cashless society depends on three things, all of which have failed in recent weeks as a result of natural disasters and security breaches.
The banks could have used their collective bargaining power not only against Apple for Apple Pay but also stall the adoption of mobile payments in Australia.
The competition in Australia’s contactless payment industry is heating up as Apple Pay sets up in Australia. However some banks claim the company is making the system less competitive.
Despite a rise in cashless payments and a drop in customers drawing out cash, bank tellers might still have a future.
Apple faces numerous challenges in its bid to get more people using their iPhones to pay for things.
Do innovations like PayPal, Square, Apple Pay and Bitcoin spell the end of cash? How different countries are adopting new forms of financial tech.
Australians love to ‘tap and go’ for payments, but doing it with a mobile phone is being complicated by our card fee system.
Mobile payments will be one of the hottest businesses in 2015 as consumers increasingly swap cash and credit cards for their smartphones. How fast the mobile payment market segment grows, however, will…
Apple Pay has launched to much fanfare. People with the iPhone 6 or 6 Plus are now able to make credit card payments at certain shops and restaurants in the US. But Apple Pay isn’t the first of its kind…
A service is soon to launch in the UK that will enable us to transfer money to other people using just their name and mobile number. Paym is being hailed as a revolution in banking because you can pay…
Sometime in the not too distant future we won’t go through the hassle of negotiating how to split a lunch bill. We’ll do it through an app. Or pay your portion with your credit card, your online ID, or…
You might not realise it, but there is a virtual queue of organisations snaking around you just waiting to make you more valuable than you actually are. Your spending patterns, loyalty program memberships…
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Adjunct Professor, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of FinTech History and Global Trade, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Fellow of the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney
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Director: MOD., University of South Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Networking, The Open University
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Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Oxford
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Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management
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Clinical associate professor, Boston University
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Lecturer, Intercollege Larnaca
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Languages Department Coordinator/Lecturer of English, Intercollege Larnaca
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Professor of Management, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
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Professor of Innovation and Strategy, Cisco Chair in Digital Business Transformation, International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
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