Archive for October, 2011
You’ve Been Durbin-ed: BofA’s $5 Fee Is Just the Start of Consumer Pain
Starting last Saturday, Oct. 1, large banks had the interchange fee income they could get from merchants when their customers used their debit cards slashed 45% as a result of the Durbin Amendment. These large banks will lose roughly $7 billion in revenue annually as a result.
Most people used to get their debit cards for […]
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Is 2012 The Year Mobile Payments Take Off?
Mobile. Everywhere. Opportunity. Everywhere. This was the theme of the GigaOm Mobilize 2011 conference held one week ago in San Francisco. Over two days during 50 sessions, participants debated the impact of the mash-up of cloud computing and the mobile Web for driving new opportunities for everyone in mobile - certainly a familiar theme for […]
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