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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~4/Rb9ITsOg2hs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://aneace.blogspot.com/2009/04/loyalty-card-saturation-elephant-in.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18727600.post-5915655673708550125</guid><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:45:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-04-19T04:11:44.727+02:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">acquiring</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Taggo</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mobile payment</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">contactless</category><title>A counter-intuitive way to make mobile payments irresistible</title><atom:summary>Put loyalty and prepaid cards on mobile phones first, which will create the desire to have credit and debit cards as well, integrated into a single transaction. Going the other way, credit cards first, will be extremely challenging. The difference is the value proposition to customers and retailers.The main promise of putting credit and debit cards onto an NFC mobile phone seems to be, "you can </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~3/lHPVhR0Q9UA/counter-intuitive-way-to-make-credit.html</link><author>aneace.haddad@gmail.com (Aneace Haddad)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~4/lHPVhR0Q9UA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://aneace.blogspot.com/2009/04/counter-intuitive-way-to-make-credit.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18727600.post-7390857480508822624</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-04-14T11:13:01.856+02:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Taggo</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">innovation</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">loyalty</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mobile payment</category><title>Loyalty and prepaid programs as mobile content, like ringtones and games</title><atom:summary>I now look at loyalty programs, discount cards, prepaid cards, and other membership programs as mobile content, very similar to ringtones and games.The same way that people today send a text message with a key word or code to get a ringtone or game sent to their mobile phone, customers can also add loyalty and prepaid card programs to their phones.This is a paradigm shift that focuses on getting </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~3/JyGdDfJW-IQ/loyalty-and-prepaid-programs-as-mobile.html</link><author>aneace.haddad@gmail.com (Aneace Haddad)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NhdvnH3sK90/SeRTVn7FLOI/AAAAAAAAAR4/TyDKWNWkZ3g/s72-c/Mobile+content.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~4/JyGdDfJW-IQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://aneace.blogspot.com/2009/04/loyalty-and-prepaid-programs-as-mobile.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18727600.post-2854584353721170053</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-04-14T11:14:40.523+02:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Taggo</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">loyalty</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mobile payment</category><title>Taggo now has a website</title><atom:summary>Check it out here.</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~3/h-MVOf0YqxU/taggo-now-has-website.html</link><author>aneace.haddad@gmail.com (Aneace Haddad)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NhdvnH3sK90/Sdvf6hHkUDI/AAAAAAAAARo/jZ02NygYKDY/s72-c/Taggo.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~4/h-MVOf0YqxU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://aneace.blogspot.com/2009/04/taggo-now-has-website.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18727600.post-4336433780333351534</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-03-17T00:21:15.633+01:00</atom:updated><title>Good leaders delegate, great leaders empower</title><atom:summary>This weekend, during a leadership training course I am doing here in Singapore, I had a breakthrough that helped me finally understand something important about empowering others. Top executives get to where they are by learning to delegate early in their careers. Many of us (raise my hand) tend to confuse delegating with empowering. I have had a nagging feeling for years that I could be much </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~3/uoqaSOi4g9M/good-leaders-delegate-great-leaders.html</link><author>aneace.haddad@gmail.com (Aneace Haddad)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">3</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~4/uoqaSOi4g9M" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://aneace.blogspot.com/2009/03/good-leaders-delegate-great-leaders.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18727600.post-5682723019845363674</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-02-26T04:06:40.933+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">crisis</category><title>American Express pays people $300 to drop their accounts</title><atom:summary>Now here's a new angle. American Express is offering selected customers a gift of $300 if they pay off their balance and drop their account. This is the exact reverse of a sign-up bonus or gift that credit card issuers have been offering for years.More here.(Thanks Wan Ling for sending this to me! And Alan Hale too!)</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~3/PExD87vF588/american-express-pays-people-300-to.html</link><author>aneace.haddad@gmail.com (Aneace Haddad)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">2</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=PExD87vF588:puXr5EQE7qE:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=PExD87vF588:puXr5EQE7qE:UT3xtbGYFzA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=UT3xtbGYFzA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=PExD87vF588:puXr5EQE7qE:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=PExD87vF588:puXr5EQE7qE:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~4/PExD87vF588" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://aneace.blogspot.com/2009/02/american-express-pays-people-300-to.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18727600.post-7611861744743653462</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-04-14T11:15:30.490+02:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Taggo</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">innovation</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">loyalty</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mobile payment</category><title>Startup adds mobile convenience and one-step enrolment to loyalty programs</title><atom:summary>Ok here’s what I’ve been working on. The patent was filed this week, so I can finally talk about it.Taggo is designed to add mobile tap and go convenience and one-step enrolment to existing loyalty and rewards card programs in a very simple and cost-effective way.TaggoView more presentations from aneace. (tags: loyalty contactless)Faced with the growing proliferation of loyalty cards offering </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~3/CuyRjSu_BCA/startup-adds-mobile-convenience-and-one.html</link><author>aneace.haddad@gmail.com (Aneace Haddad)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">2</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~4/CuyRjSu_BCA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://aneace.blogspot.com/2009/02/startup-adds-mobile-convenience-and-one.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18727600.post-6367380730739242004</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-01-29T03:36:19.878+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">acquiring</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">crisis</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Welcome</category><title>Crisis gives national banks an upper hand in payments</title><atom:summary>I have been thinking a lot about how the crisis is having a different impact on the world’s national banks, which don’t seem to be suffering as badly as the big international players. In the cards and payments business at least, national banks may be able to take advantage of the crisis to get ahead while big international players struggle to survive. Welcome’s customers tend in large part to be </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~3/sgtp6owDawA/crisis-gives-national-banks-upper-hand.html</link><author>aneace.haddad@gmail.com (Aneace Haddad)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=sgtp6owDawA:nI8bTdUpyTU:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=sgtp6owDawA:nI8bTdUpyTU:UT3xtbGYFzA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=UT3xtbGYFzA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=sgtp6owDawA:nI8bTdUpyTU:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=sgtp6owDawA:nI8bTdUpyTU:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~4/sgtp6owDawA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://aneace.blogspot.com/2009/01/crisis-gives-national-banks-upper-hand.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18727600.post-4354657216451493163</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:16:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-01-26T04:17:48.523+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">crisis</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">interchange</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">loyalty</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">contactless</category><title>Q&amp;A with Shawn Miles, MasterCard: "The continued availability of credit is helping retailers drive transactions"</title><atom:summary>MasterCard recently published a report, “Benefits of Open Payments Systems and the Role of Interchange.” (direct link, background). I interviewed MasterCard’s Shawn Miles, Group Head, Global Public Policy and Regulatory Strategy Counsel.Aneace: One of the benefits of interchange is that it helps fund innovation, and we have definitely seen in Australia that lower interchange means lower </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~3/AWCICpXABU0/q-with-shawn-miles-mastercard-continued.html</link><author>aneace.haddad@gmail.com (Aneace Haddad)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">3</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=AWCICpXABU0:caZLOz2yqlo:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=AWCICpXABU0:caZLOz2yqlo:UT3xtbGYFzA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=UT3xtbGYFzA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=AWCICpXABU0:caZLOz2yqlo:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=AWCICpXABU0:caZLOz2yqlo:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~4/AWCICpXABU0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://aneace.blogspot.com/2009/01/q-with-shawn-miles-mastercard-continued.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18727600.post-9071268045037963048</guid><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-01-24T01:25:02.650+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">crisis</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">interchange</category><title>The interchange wars are over … for now</title><atom:summary>Many people have been after me for not keeping up with my blog. When the crisis hit everything changed. Things I was writing about suddenly seemed less relevant. Today, I can see more clearly that there are still many topics that are relevant, and even more so now, while there is at least one really big thing that is much less relevant. Interchange wars.One could imagine that some retailers might</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~3/fe7bypH-9fM/interchange-wars-are-over-for-now.html</link><author>aneace.haddad@gmail.com (Aneace Haddad)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">3</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=fe7bypH-9fM:zHIbIa-kdlA:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=fe7bypH-9fM:zHIbIa-kdlA:UT3xtbGYFzA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=UT3xtbGYFzA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=fe7bypH-9fM:zHIbIa-kdlA:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=fe7bypH-9fM:zHIbIa-kdlA:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~4/fe7bypH-9fM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://aneace.blogspot.com/2009/01/interchange-wars-are-over-for-now.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18727600.post-4061259598187541147</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:25:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-22T06:40:40.411+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">acquiring</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">crisis</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">innovation</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">loyalty</category><title>Crisis: much of the traditional thinking in rewards programmes will be useless</title><atom:summary>Banks have already substantially cut credit limits and it seems obvious that they should be giving out fewer cards than in the past, but you can’t really tell this with all the credit card marketing still happening in Singapore’s shopping districts. Will banks continue promoting card usage and credit consumption as the crisis grows, or will rewards programmes now focus much more heavily on other </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~3/oUd_YSyi-84/crisis-much-of-traditional-thinking-in.html</link><author>aneace.haddad@gmail.com (Aneace Haddad)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=oUd_YSyi-84:t3vtT333LJE:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=oUd_YSyi-84:t3vtT333LJE:UT3xtbGYFzA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=UT3xtbGYFzA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=oUd_YSyi-84:t3vtT333LJE:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=oUd_YSyi-84:t3vtT333LJE:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~4/oUd_YSyi-84" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://aneace.blogspot.com/2008/12/crisis-much-of-traditional-thinking-in.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18727600.post-2461134921089914807</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-11T08:56:20.501+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">case studies</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">loyalty</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mobile payment</category><title>Mobile tap &amp; go loyalty wallet - market research survey</title><atom:summary>I have just finished compiling the results of an early, exploratory on-line survey I ran recently here in Singapore, testing the market for a mobile tap &amp; go startup project that I am working on. Then, bang, synchronicity! I just got an e-mail from Aite Group on a survey they recently did in a similar area.My survey explores how customers deal with lots of retailer loyalty and discount cards, and</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~3/EAr31f1saFM/mobile-tap-go-loyalty-wallet-market.html</link><author>aneace.haddad@gmail.com (Aneace Haddad)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">5</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=EAr31f1saFM:QUSeXb3jMuc:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=EAr31f1saFM:QUSeXb3jMuc:UT3xtbGYFzA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=UT3xtbGYFzA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=EAr31f1saFM:QUSeXb3jMuc:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=EAr31f1saFM:QUSeXb3jMuc:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~4/EAr31f1saFM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://aneace.blogspot.com/2008/12/mobile-tap-go-loyalty-wallet-market.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18727600.post-1230749685253620462</guid><pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:40:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-28T00:56:20.752+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">crisis</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">loyalty</category><title>Report: Rewards programs are even more crucial for credit card issuers today</title><atom:summary>Research firm Aite Group has just produced a report on how the credit crisis will make credit card rewards programs even more crucial than they already are. Instead of simply saying that credit cards are the next bubble to burst and how customers are moving away from credit cards, this report attempts to go into more depth and starts to offer some visibility as to what the industry may look like </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~3/NNZ8NwQ36pk/report-rewards-programs-are-even-more.html</link><author>aneace.haddad@gmail.com (Aneace Haddad)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=NNZ8NwQ36pk:AsdFEVpjcGE:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=NNZ8NwQ36pk:AsdFEVpjcGE:UT3xtbGYFzA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=UT3xtbGYFzA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=NNZ8NwQ36pk:AsdFEVpjcGE:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=NNZ8NwQ36pk:AsdFEVpjcGE:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~4/NNZ8NwQ36pk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://aneace.blogspot.com/2008/11/report-rewards-programs-are-even-more.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18727600.post-8892785229665520778</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:49:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-11T08:55:42.281+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mobile payment</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">contactless</category><title>Phone wallet - do I need one?</title><atom:summary>Here's an interesting article in NetworkWorld, titled I need a 'wallet phone' why?"Last night on my drive home I stopped at a Boston Market take-out restaurant and here's how I paid for my family's dinner: I handed the counter clerk my American Express, she swiped it through a card reader, and handed me a receipt. There was no PIN to enter and nothing to sign. Couldn't have taken 15 seconds."</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~3/7m-2waGUDFs/phone-wallet-do-i-need-one.html</link><author>aneace.haddad@gmail.com (Aneace Haddad)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">3</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=7m-2waGUDFs:QrHwR5Rixj8:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=7m-2waGUDFs:QrHwR5Rixj8:UT3xtbGYFzA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=UT3xtbGYFzA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=7m-2waGUDFs:QrHwR5Rixj8:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=7m-2waGUDFs:QrHwR5Rixj8:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~4/7m-2waGUDFs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://aneace.blogspot.com/2008/11/phone-wallet-do-i-need-one.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18727600.post-8663790490260768379</guid><pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 08:15:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-11T08:54:48.969+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">loyalty</category><title>Building true loyalty - helping customers when they really need it</title><atom:summary>Here's a positive thought after this past week. A veteran banker writes:"We need to stop for a moment and recognize that even if we do have the biggest challenge since the Depression, it has also presented us with possibly the biggest opportunity to build relationships with our customers that we’ll ever see."When I was a very young banker in the 1970s, I spent some time trying to sell small </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~3/ktoj8cxYyqI/building-true-loyalty-helping-customers.html</link><author>aneace.haddad@gmail.com (Aneace Haddad)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=ktoj8cxYyqI:HMHSuxIjx9s:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=ktoj8cxYyqI:HMHSuxIjx9s:UT3xtbGYFzA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=UT3xtbGYFzA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=ktoj8cxYyqI:HMHSuxIjx9s:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=ktoj8cxYyqI:HMHSuxIjx9s:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~4/ktoj8cxYyqI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://aneace.blogspot.com/2008/09/building-true-loyalty-helping-customers.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18727600.post-5414311029954651222</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-11T08:54:11.759+01:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">presentations</category><title>EFMA 2008 conference presentation, Paris</title><atom:summary>Here's the presentation that I gave at the EFMA conference yesterday.Haddad Efma Sept 2008View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.A water pipe broke in the ceiling right above my head while I was waiting for my turn to speak, delaying the conference by 45 minutes and drenching my suit jacket and shirt. Maybe I should tone down all the talk about interchange!</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~3/yHlSWrUIv4k/efma-2008-conference-presentation-paris.html</link><author>aneace.haddad@gmail.com (Aneace Haddad)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NhdvnH3sK90/SMos7hG9mWI/AAAAAAAAALc/7C6p2wvNtBA/s72-c/11092008876.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=yHlSWrUIv4k:73N7z5zscM8:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=yHlSWrUIv4k:73N7z5zscM8:UT3xtbGYFzA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=UT3xtbGYFzA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=yHlSWrUIv4k:73N7z5zscM8:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=yHlSWrUIv4k:73N7z5zscM8:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~4/yHlSWrUIv4k" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://aneace.blogspot.com/2008/09/efma-2008-conference-presentation-paris.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18727600.post-9019985321164627924</guid><pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 08:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-31T10:30:32.848+02:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">case studies</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">acquiring</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">surcharging</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">interchange</category><title>Interchange regulations make credit card surcharges increasingly common</title><atom:summary>If you want to see the real-world impact of interchange regulations, the best place to look is obviously Australia. This is a country where the most sweeping changes to the interchange model have taken place, a country seen by regulators everywhere as something of a model to learn from.If you can’t go to Australia to learn first-hand (maybe you've been trying to convince your boss to let you go, </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~3/dPB1umm7a0Q/interchange-regulations-make-credit.html</link><author>aneace.haddad@gmail.com (Aneace Haddad)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=dPB1umm7a0Q:m8DA4arZeYg:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=dPB1umm7a0Q:m8DA4arZeYg:UT3xtbGYFzA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=UT3xtbGYFzA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=dPB1umm7a0Q:m8DA4arZeYg:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=dPB1umm7a0Q:m8DA4arZeYg:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~4/dPB1umm7a0Q" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://aneace.blogspot.com/2008/08/interchange-regulations-make-credit.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18727600.post-369882526308193050</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:43:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-16T07:10:44.746+02:00</atom:updated><title>Why do some merchants make you sign twice?</title><atom:summary>This is something I am running into more and more frequently. The clerk asks you to sign both the credit card slip as well as the cash register receipt. Presumably, they need to keep the signed cash register receipt to deal with chargebacks. There could be an opportunity here for a payment provider to offer a better service to retailers so that they don't feel they need to do this.Even worse, the</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~3/9h06NlE_RCM/why-do-some-merchants-make-you-sign.html</link><author>aneace.haddad@gmail.com (Aneace Haddad)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NhdvnH3sK90/SKZhNv2qsfI/AAAAAAAAALE/1XY7CPcPMqI/s72-c/05082008678.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=9h06NlE_RCM:jF_vdwyE7IE:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=9h06NlE_RCM:jF_vdwyE7IE:UT3xtbGYFzA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=UT3xtbGYFzA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=9h06NlE_RCM:jF_vdwyE7IE:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=9h06NlE_RCM:jF_vdwyE7IE:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~4/9h06NlE_RCM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://aneace.blogspot.com/2008/08/why-do-some-merchants-make-you-sign.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18727600.post-8344169187957702797</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:07:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-31T12:34:22.347+02:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">acquiring</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">PIVAS</category><title>Mercator encourages acquirers to develop value added services</title><atom:summary>PaymentsNews reported yesterday on a Mercator report titled, "Merchant Acquiring in the United States 2008: Birth of the perfect storm".Pressure on merchant acquirers has always been strong, but things are expected to get worse. Mercator encourages acquirers to protect their businesses by focusing on value-added services leveraging payment data, among other things."Diversification of merchant </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~3/kMCfx47T8zE/mercator-encourages-acquirers-to.html</link><author>aneace.haddad@gmail.com (Aneace Haddad)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=kMCfx47T8zE:OXYd9nT8L0c:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=kMCfx47T8zE:OXYd9nT8L0c:UT3xtbGYFzA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=UT3xtbGYFzA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=kMCfx47T8zE:OXYd9nT8L0c:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=kMCfx47T8zE:OXYd9nT8L0c:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~4/kMCfx47T8zE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://aneace.blogspot.com/2008/07/mercator-encourages-acquirers-to.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18727600.post-7405139313762659127</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:51:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-31T08:05:37.731+02:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">presentations</category><title>Conference themes (a bit of unabashed self-promotion)</title><atom:summary>Are you looking for a conference speaker who delivers thoughtful and thought-provoking presentations on current topics facing payment executives around the world?How and when should banks innovate? Should banks lead new initiatives, like mobile payments, or should they follow others and play a supporting role? How can banks prepare for the risk of lower interchange? Will contactless change the </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~3/kn_rwjWiuhQ/conference-themes-bit-of-unabashed-self.html</link><author>aneace.haddad@gmail.com (Aneace Haddad)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=kn_rwjWiuhQ:_5la-20RfeI:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=kn_rwjWiuhQ:_5la-20RfeI:UT3xtbGYFzA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=UT3xtbGYFzA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=kn_rwjWiuhQ:_5la-20RfeI:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=kn_rwjWiuhQ:_5la-20RfeI:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~4/kn_rwjWiuhQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://aneace.blogspot.com/2008/07/conference-themes-bit-of-unabashed-self.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18727600.post-6789424364749298246</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:25:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-28T05:07:51.368+02:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">acquiring</category><title>Are Asian banks having second thoughts about outsourcing acquiring to third party processors?</title><atom:summary>Last week, an executive with a regional bank in Asia explained to me that they were beginning to regret the decision to outsource their acquiring activities to a major third party processor. They are finding that without direct control of their acquiring business, it is now much harder to develop marketing promotions and partnerships with merchants. These promotions have become very important for</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~3/ncQvvAgXlXI/are-asian-banks-having-second-thoughts.html</link><author>aneace.haddad@gmail.com (Aneace Haddad)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://bp2.blogger.com/_NhdvnH3sK90/SI0pSNoj0uI/AAAAAAAAAKE/FqtFCqbVAW4/s72-c/Citibank+Din+Tai+Fung.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~4/ncQvvAgXlXI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://aneace.blogspot.com/2008/07/are-asian-banks-having-second-thoughts.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18727600.post-5445457778202486081</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:23:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-28T04:59:13.334+02:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">acquiring</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">receipt promotions</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">PIVAS</category><title>Examples of card promotions possible when banks retain their acquiring activities</title><atom:summary>You can see these promotions across Asia, where many banks are still active in merchant acquiring and see it as a useful support function for their card issuing business. Some banks are finding that without direct control of acquiring, it is much harder to develop marketing promotions and partnerships with merchants (more here on banks having second thoughts about outsourcing their acquiring </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~3/92uQCAmmjYU/examples-of-card-promotions-possible.html</link><author>aneace.haddad@gmail.com (Aneace Haddad)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://bp1.blogger.com/_NhdvnH3sK90/SI01LLdSyHI/AAAAAAAAAKk/OlzO2I4lUSU/s72-c/Citibank+Din+Tai+Fung.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~4/92uQCAmmjYU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://aneace.blogspot.com/2008/07/examples-of-card-promotions-possible.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18727600.post-7597941836694249252</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:14:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-24T09:48:11.234+02:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">innovation</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mobile payment</category><title>When should a bank launch a mobile payment service? Do banks even need to innovate?</title><atom:summary>Since contactless credit cards are not taking off as fast as expected, and neither customers nor merchants are excited about tapping a card instead of swiping it, some analysts have started looking at contactless as a bridge to mobile payments, which is now seen as the next great revolution. I'm having trouble buying this.How can contactless create the reader infrastructure that is required for </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~3/BvRKxEzHqws/when-should-bank-launch-mobile-payment.html</link><author>aneace.haddad@gmail.com (Aneace Haddad)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=BvRKxEzHqws:eZ2_EdSPOWQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=BvRKxEzHqws:eZ2_EdSPOWQ:UT3xtbGYFzA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=UT3xtbGYFzA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=BvRKxEzHqws:eZ2_EdSPOWQ:63t7Ie-LG7Y"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=63t7Ie-LG7Y" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?a=BvRKxEzHqws:eZ2_EdSPOWQ:7Q72WNTAKBA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/AneacesBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~4/BvRKxEzHqws" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://aneace.blogspot.com/2008/07/when-should-bank-launch-mobile-payment.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18727600.post-4703695734167312880</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-18T02:32:15.523+02:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">presentations</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">innovation</category><title>Internet banking</title><atom:summary>Chris Skinner was in Hong Kong at the Financial Cards &amp; Payments Asia conference which I wrote about earlier. Chris just did a very good post on a presentation by eBank Japan. Check out Internet banking ... but not as we know it."An $8 billion in assets bank, with almost 3 million customer accounts, operated by just 195 staff. 195 people in total that is. 15,000 accounts per staff member. How do </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AneacesBlog/~3/20vsfSR7viw/internet-banking.html</link><author>aneace.haddad@gmail.com (Aneace Haddad)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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