Please adjust your set
By Dave Birch posted Dec 24 2012 at 10:18 AMAnnouncing the end of the Digital Money blog. Please retune to the Tomorrow's Transactions blog. Thank you for your co-operation. The computer is your friend.
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Announcing the end of the Digital Money blog. Please retune to the Tomorrow's Transactions blog. Thank you for your co-operation. The computer is your friend.
[Dave Birch] Ah, Christmas. Thinking about it always makes me cry, because that's when I fill out my traditional tax form for Her Majesties Revenue and Customs. But at least my taxes aren't the King's Ransom they were once.
[Dave Birch] Non-electronic large payments are about one thing only: crime.
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[Dave Birch] There's an economic reason for getting rid of cash: the ability to have negative nominal interest rates. And we should have plastic pounds.
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[Dave Birch] The future of retail e-payments will probably include NFC, but it may not include EMV.
[Dave Birch] Happy happy day, our pub has gone contactless.
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[Dave Birch] The Digital Money blog will switch off at the end of 2012 as it has been absorbed into Tomorrow's Transactions.
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[Dave Birch] We need to link KYC to some form of "Financial Services Identifier" or "Payments Passport". You might want to store this in your phone, but it isn't your phone.
[Dave Birch] Will the mobile wallet preserve existing relationships or disrupt them?
[Dave Birch] People should use their real names on Facebook. No, wait… they shouldn't. Wait, they should… I shouldn't make fun of MPs for knowing nothing about identity management strategy because their voters don't know what they want either.
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