Last week saw a number of important developments at Google Wallet. Let’s recap what we’ve learned: Osama Bedier, the Head of Google Wallet, left the company. Google Wallet scrapped its plans to introduce a physical card to support purchases at the physical POS. Then, at Google I/O Developer conference, the company made a series of [...]

I was at International Payments Summit in London last week. I spoke on a panel on real time payments, the insights of which will be the basis of a later blog.  But here are the highlights for me: IPS may well be back I last attended IPS 5 or 6 years ago. I stopped going [...]

In a blog on February 5th we broke the news that there was likely to be a regulatory review of payments governance. This was as a result of a speech the chancellor had made the previous day. Whilst UK centric in topic, these changes have global implications, as more governments around the world take an [...]

This morning, ACI announced that it is going to acquire Online Resources. It’s a bold move on the part of ACI, especially after their recent acquisition of S1. ACI is clearly working on growing market share, and adding to it’s vast treasure trove of fintech assets. My initial feelings regarding the acquisition are mixed. What [...]

The new year brings lots of questions, planning and decision making. IT spending is tied directly to these elements, and as in past years, we have been receiving a truckload of IT spending questions. After a rocky few years folks are curious as to if the figures are on the uptick in 2013. The short [...]

We’re coming to the end of the old year and the top of a new one, and that means it’s time for top trend reports from Celent. These are typically some of the most downloaded reports of the year. They represent the collective thinking of the entire Celent banking team. There will be four coming [...]

As the festive season approaches, this is the time of the year when Celent analysts reflect on what kept us busy through the year and what the future might hold for the next 12 months in our respective coverage areas. We usually publish the results of this thinking and analysis in various trends reports – from Top Trends [...]

Back in September I wrote a blog post about the start of the conference season. I am pleased to say that the extensive travel is nearing the end – four major events down, one more to go, as I am off to CARTES in Paris next week. Just last week I came back from a multi-stop trip [...]

There are so many great conferences and events throughout the year that prioritising them and deciding which ones to attend becomes a critical task for any analyst as it would be impossible to attend them all. However, no matter how well we prioritise, come September, every year most of us find ourselves travelling a lot [...]

London Olympics are in full swing, and so far it’s been a tremendous success. I thought the opening ceremony was absolutely breathtaking – it was creative, ambitious, beautiful and yet so different from everything else we’ve seen. After Beijing, most people said it would be difficult to surpass the sheer scale and grandeur of that [...]