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12 Sep 2016

The 180° Pivot: How a supplier became a customer

This was a 180° pivot – not just a jump to the left or a step to the right, but an about-turn in the less than mature Saas/Mobile environment of 2010, when an intimate knowledge of a strategic customer provided an ideal basis to drive a transformational opportunity. As I described in my artic...

30 Aug 2016

Who will you turn to when you face your existential crisis?

Over the lifetime of any company, there will be a handful of potential deals that could dramatically transform the outcome. Although every company theoretically has access to transformational opportunities, few actually manage to identify them, let alone seize them. It could be a deal that saves yo...

25 Jul 2016

Disruptive Business Models in Logistics

Marketplaces and crowdsourcing business models are disrupting every category of logistics, from international freight to same-day local delivery, and everything in between. Marketplace or Crowdsourcing Service Provider? Marketplaces connect buyers with sellers, with sellers defining specific service...

11 Jul 2016

What Wall Street’s Obsession With Blockchain Means for the Future of Banking

By Professor Howard Yu Anyone who sends money abroad knows how inconvenient it is. Banks take days, sometimes weeks, to clear payments, and they collect a hefty fee in between. And God forbid, when errors occur, money vanishes into thin air. “Banking now is like sending a letter—you send it ...

01 Jul 2016

FinTech in Switzerland: A Quick Overview

June 29, 2016 By : Marc P. Bernegger, First appeared in Lets Talk Payments Switzerland has everything it takes to advance to the league of leading FinTech nations. First-class financial institutions, leading banking software manufacturers and research departments of ICT heavyweights such ...

29 Jun 2016

Blockchains will empower people in developing countries

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The logic is simple and compelling. A strong land registry can mobilise massive capital in developing countries. A national land registry using smart contracts leveraging blockchain technology can be universally trusted. What are we waiting for? Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto, president...

15 Jun 2016

Will mobile operators be relevant in an IoT world?

Current Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity comes from mobile networks and wifi, with mobile operators providing service through their existing range of 2G-4G network technologies and established machine-to-machine (M2M) platforms. However, a new class of connectivity designed for M2M applicati...

29 May 2016

Nailing Industrial IoT Revenues

The Industrial IoT (IIoT) segment is the most mature IoT segment, measured by the % of developers in this segment in productive roles, according to the Vision Mobile IoT Megatrends 2016 report. However, the current revenues for IIoT sales into any target application are still small, although most i...

23 May 2016

Can a national mobile payment system make sense?

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In the past couple of months, the Monetary Authority of Singapore announced that it is considering a national mobile payments system for peer-to-peer (P2P) payments, whilst in Switzerland, the sponsors of Paymit and Twint have announced that they have entered into merger discussions to create a...