I always find it interesting when industry trends take on a life of their own. There is, always, the constant ebb-and-flow of focus on differing areas of technology and business models. But some seem to resurface more than others. In these discussions, and trends, business opportunity can be found. If more than one person is [...]

NOTE: The blog migration is, in theory, nearing completion. If you run into anything bizarre or a bit wonky please contact me via the :contact: link above A few items of note occurred today…and yes, they are related: Glenbrook released their annual Payment Systems and Domains Analysis I purchased a couch Unrelated, eh? It was, [...]

At present, I’m sitting (somewhat cramped) on a flight for a partner meeting tomorrow…typically, I travel with one carrier (United) as it makes managing the Frequent Flyer programmes substantively easier (and of greater benefit to me*). For this flight, however, the cost difference and flight time indicated that it would be best to travel via [...]

For those of you who know me in person, have spent any amount of time listening to me speak, or follow my conversation via other Social Media outlets, you will (quite likely) have heard my reference my daughter. What can I say, I’m a proud father? For those of you who don’t know…I am blessed [...]

On May 25, 2009 in Frankfurt, Thomas M. Hoenig (President, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City) gave a brief speech entitled The Future of Retail Banking and Payments – Developers in Global Markets: The Role of Central Banks. You can obtain a transcript of here. Having read the transcript, more than once, there are few [...]