Richard Harris, CEO of ensygnia, was recently asked to lead the Judging for the Innovation Award for the Lloyds Bank National Business Awards. It’s no small undertaking to judge your peers and objectively review what are on the whole outstanding efforts from all entrants.
Payments, Security, Patents
Back in February of this year, when the threat of COVID was becoming a global cause for concern, we posed the question on this site about whether 2020 would be the year of the QR code.
Payments, Patents
There’s a counter on the homepage of the GSMA’s website which tells you that today, there are some 5.1 billion unique mobile subscribers in the world. Elsewhere in its pages you can see that there are now more than one billion registered mobile money accounts – that’s one in five of the world’s mobile subscribers.
Payments, Security
This month’s Wired magazine has refreshed its opinion of the QR code from marketing gimmick to everyday essential.
Payments, Security, Retail, Identity
Payments consultancy CMSPI believes the looming deadline in Europe for retailers to comply with the regulations around Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) for online sales could cause further damage to an industry already suffering from the effects of severely reduced in-store footfall.
Payments, Trust, Security, Identity
The modern mobile industry is only a little over 30 years old – the mobile money market barely a decade. Yet the power of that mobile device to change habits and revolutionise the way we live is both breathtaking and undiminished. The GSMA released a report this month that showed there are now more than one billion mobile money accounts active in the world.
