James McDonald, Barclaycard Business

[Dave Birch] James McDonald is head of Contactless Payments for Barclays Business. James has worked for Barclaycard for 35 years with roles covering processing, fraud, finance, organisation and methods, research and development, operations, business strategy and has been involved with, and led, Point Of Sale product innovation and development for the past 25 years. Over the last 8 years James has led the Barclaycard Business Point of Sale strategy development and execution and has been Programme Director for Chip and PIN. In the last three years James has been a principal member of the Barclaycard business-wide team that won the opportunity to develop the OnePulse Barclaycard which combines Oyster functionality with a credit card and contactless payments. He now leading the Barclaycard Business Contactless payments programme as Programme Director, and saw the successful launch of the Barclaycard Business OneTouch contactless payments service in September 2007. His focus in 2008 is to roll out contactless payments nationally, and in this podcast he talks about the current contactless roll out and where the business might move in the future.

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