Finovate hosted their spring event this week at the San Francisco Design Center, bringing together the latest and greatest innovators for payments and financial service technologies in a massive exhibition hall in the city by the bay. The San Francisco Bay Area has been a global leader in business model and technology innovation, giving birth […]

On April 19 at the BayPay Forum on Mobile Payments in San Jose, the evening outside was calm, cool and quiet, with high clouds drifting across a full moon. But inside the Forum’s main hall, a quiet revolution was underway as clouds slowly drift across the face of NFC-enabled mobile commerce. Cloud-based payments and IP-enabled […]

Greetings to the PYMNTS. com crowd from the shores of the Great Salt Lake, where MPD is at the epicenter of the debate over the future of mobile payments and NFC (near-field communication) chip adoption in the US marketplace. The event is the Smart Card Alliance annual conference, the venue is the Marriott City Center, […]

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This article is part of the February issue of the Lydian Journal.

Editor’s Note
A number of very large and significant platform industries are converging on a common opportunity – to create and grow consumer commerce. Payments capabilities certainly underpin this convergent trend. Yet increasingly, the power in the […]

The third day of the Resolution Series brings with it a market focus and a look at customer needs. Tim Attinger of Market Platform Dynamics vows to be more open [with his platforms] in 2011.
I will design with the customer in mind
In the past I have built my products by looking around my […]

As you wait for Santa to come and fill your stocking this holiday season, you may be thinking of what might be the best toys and gadgets for that most demanding of technologists in your household, namely…yourself.  Perhaps you have bought every new gadget that comes out in the marketplace, including tech toys that were […]