11/30/2018 8:38:32 PM Record Mobile Sales Hit $2B On Biggest Black Friday Ever By Gareth Jones US consumers purchased more than $2 billion of goods straight from their phones on Black Friday.
7/27/2018 3:43:12 PM Nigerians Bury Cash in Backyards as Mobile Money Stumbles By Gareth Jones Bloomberg explores why Nigeria (which vies with South Africa as the continent’s biggest economy) is struggling to get mobile money off...
6/14/2018 2:55:34 AM Adyen shares almost double on debut By Gareth Jones As the FT reported, the pop turned into a jump, then it started to look like an explosion as . Adyen's first day on public markets in...
2/16/2018 5:57:41 PM Hyperinflation meets tech: Cash-scarce Venezuela sees boom in payment apps By Gareth Jones Fascinating Reuters article highlighting the move from cash to digital payments in Venezuela, despite some of the world’s lowest internet...
12/1/2017 7:27:52 PM Uber Signs First Southeast Asian e-Wallet Deal With Vietnam's MoMo By Gareth Jones The deal is Uber's first e-wallet partnership in Southeast Asia, home to 600 million people, and could help the firm catch up with main...
9/22/2017 10:06:20 PM Alibaba and Tencent Set Fast Pace in Mobile-Payments Race By Gareth Jones In China, QR codes are used widely by smartphone owners to pay bills and make purchases in shops and at vending machines - contributing...
7/28/2017 1:31:57 AM Fiserv’s takeover of British fintech pioneer Monitise is on shaky ground By Gareth Jones Fiserv’s takeover of British fintech pioneer Monitise is on shaky ground after an extraordinary general meeting was postponed by Fiserv...
6/16/2017 2:52:41 AM Cash Faces a New Challenger in Zelle, a Mobile Banking Service By Gareth Jones What makes Zelle, a digital payments network that will allow people to send money instantly through participating banks’ mobile apps,...