With its announcement of Snapcash on Monday, Snapchat (with a $10bn valuation in its last funding in August[1]) enters the market for integration of social media and person-to-person (P2P) payments in competition with PayPal’s Venmo (which handled over $300mm in
Financially, the argument for splitting eBay and PayPal is stronger today than in the past because eBay now accounts for less than 30% of PayPal transactions (versus over 70% a decade ago) and because PayPal is so relatively large (accounting
Yesterday, WMT announced it will distribute GoBank, a mobile-only checking account offered by GDOT, which is exempt from the Durbin cap on debit interchange because of its size; with assets of less than $1bn, GDOT’s bank subsidiary, Bonneville Bank (a
Below, we address some investor questions that have arisen since Apple Pay was announced on September 9th: Apple Pay is a Catalyst for Mobile Advertising: The card swipe is broken because it does not provide easy authentication for m-commerce purchases
APPLE PAY, PASSBOOK, AND THE CONVERGENCE OF PAYMENTS AND MARKETING – CONFERENCE CALL, DATE TBD 1. Mobile wallets are as much about commerce and advertising as payments; a chip, unlike a mag-stripe, is a messaging device as well as a
Apple Pay is an EMV-compliant, NFC-enabled payments solution that will work: (i) at physical stores with EMV-compliant contactless terminals (currently activated at less than 5% of US retail stores but likely to reach 25% by end-2015); and (ii) through apps