The Beginning I've been working in Financial Services (FS) since I started my career in 2015. I started at Citigroup, working on retail banking strategy for our Asian private wealth management clients. The name of the game there was rewards and incentives both for the sales people and the new customers. In that same role, … Continue reading Breaking up with consumer FinTech: it’s not me, it’s you.
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Amazon Is Bringing Its Popular Dash Button Online - http://fortune.com/2017/01/20/amazon-dash-button/ ASOS partners with Klarna to launch pay after delivery in the Nordics - http://www.thepaypers.com/online-payments/asos-partners-with-klarna-to-launch-pay-after-delivery-in-the-nordics/767707-3 Alibaba launches partnership with Samsung, Mars, Louis Vuitton to prevent counterfeit goods - http://www.thepaypers.com/ecommerce/alibaba-launches-partnership-with-samsung-mars-louis-vuitton-to-prevent-counterfeit-goods/767706-25 International Post Corporation: Amazon, eBay, Alibaba make up two-thirds of global ecommerce - https://www.ipc.be/en/newsroom/press_releases/three-e-retailers-account-for-two-thirds-of-cross-border-purchases ANZ’s Card Replacement … Continue reading News Update
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EZ-Link blends payments with fitness trackers - https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/30017/ez-link-blends-payments-with-fitness-trackers DBS Bank subsidiary POSB is using technology from Kasisto to enable FB Messenger conversations with customers -https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/30016/posb-virtual-agent-chats-with-customers-on-facebook Hyperwallet releases new report on state of ecommerce in Marketplaces - https://www.hyperwallet.com/app/uploads/HW_The_State_of_Ecommerce_Marketplace_Selling_in_2017_V1.0.pdf iZettle, one of the fastest growing technology companies in Europe and EMEA, to accept UnionPay cards -https://www.finextra.com/pressarticle/67697/izettle-to-accept-unionpay-cards?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=finextrafeed BMO … Continue reading News Update
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Cardtronics Makes More Surcharge-Free ATMs Available For Citibank - http://www.pymnts.com/news/banking/2017/cardtronics-makes-more-surcharge-free-atms-available-for-citibank/ Online Used Goods Marketplace Letgo Raises $175M - http://www.pymnts.com/news/ecommerce/2017/online-used-goods-marketplace-letgo-raises-175m-in-huge-venture-capital-round/ Third of global consumers open to Google, Amazon banking: survey - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-wealth-financialservices-survey-idUSKBN14V2I2 Keynote speech by Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the French Payments Committee conference on “Technological innovations in payments … Continue reading News update
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Amazon wants FCC approval to test mysterious wireless communications system - http://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-wants-fcc-approval-test-mysterious-wireless-communications-system/ Remitly Now Operating In All 50 States - http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogeraitken/2017/01/14/remitly-shaking-up-billion-dollar-digital-remittances-market-adds-massachusetts-to-network/#6033146c404e Ingenico embeds payments into messaging bots - https://www.finextra.com/pressarticle/67638/ingenico-embeds-payments-into-messaging-bots?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=finextrafeed Tapping Into 120 Million Traveling Wallets - http://www.pymnts.com/news/payment-methods/2017/alipay-120-million-travel-digital-wallets/ Google prepares for payments through Google Assistant in latest beta update - https://9to5google.com/2017/01/16/google-assistant-prepares-for-payments/ UK Contactless Card Payments Surge … Continue reading News Update
News Analysis -1/7 – 1/14
India Digital Payments enablement in India: India’s Goal to get rid of Credit Cards by 2020 through government’s (Bharat Interface for Money) BHIM app Indian government launched a new mobile app in December (BHIM), enables bank to bank transfer (P2M and P2P) P2P and P2M transfers enabled through either QR code scanning, typing in the … Continue reading News Analysis -1/7 – 1/14
News Update – Jan 11, 2017
CB Insights and PWC Moneytree 2016 VC Report - https://www.cbinsights.com/reports/MoneyTree-Q4-2016.pdf PayPal Acceptance Deals Continue with Discover Pact - http://paybefore.com/retail/paypal-acceptance-deals-continue-with-discover-pact/ - Discover and PayPal have reached a deal that will expand PayPal’s POS presence while making Discover a more visible payment option within the PayPal mobile wallet. Under terms of the pact, PayPal will gain access to … Continue reading News Update – Jan 11, 2017
News Update 1/9/17
Digital Payments and Retail Score Another Christmas Victory - http://paybefore.com/retail/digital-payments-and-retail-score-another-christmas-victory/ Alexa goes mobile on Huawei Smartphone - http://www.pymnts.com/amazon/2017/alexa-pops-up-at-ces-on-competitors-device/ ING to roll out tap-and-pay charity donation boxes - https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/29956/ing-to-roll-out-tap-and-pay-charity-donation-boxes
News Update – Jan 6, 2017
Here are the interesting articles I read today: Buy Button performance (PayPal has 68% of top 100 online merchants while Amazon has 10% and Visa only has 4.1%) - http://www.pymnts.com/news/ecommerce/2017/the-big-buy-button-story-winners-losers-and-whats-next/ SBI to launch its own version of digital only bank soon -http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/banking/finance/banking/sbi-to-launch-its-own-version-of-digital-only-bank-soon/articleshow/56367231.cms Visa + Honda Show In-Vehicle Payments - http://www.pymnts.com/innovation/2017/visa-honda-show-in-vehicle-payments/ U.S. job growth slows, but … Continue reading News Update – Jan 6, 2017
News Update – Jan 5, 2017
Here are the interesting articles I read today: Fulfillment By Amazon Delivered Over 2 Billion Items - http://www.pymnts.com/news/mobile-commerce/2017/fulfillment-by-amazon-delivered-over-2-billion-items/ The Mobile Card Reader Market Set To Grow At CAGR Of Close To 54 Percent - http://www.pymnts.com/mobile/2016/technavio-the-mobile-card-reader-market-set-to-grow-at-cagr-of-close-to-54-percent/ The global mobile wallet market to grow at a CAGR of 35.5% during the period 2017-2021. - http://www.pymnts.com/news/mobile-payments/2017/global-mobile-wallet-market-double-digit-growth-2021-contactless-payments-mobile-pay/ Starbucks will … Continue reading News Update – Jan 5, 2017
Amaan Lakhani 