Mobile Payments

Varying rates of digital adoption across send and receive-sides impact payment-flows

Varying rates of digital adoption across send and receive-sides impact payment-flows

Very simplistically put, payment is the movement of money from A to B. And the world is becoming increasingly comfortable…
Quest for Friction Less Experiences

Quest for Friction Less Experiences

Yesterday, I got to experience the WhatsApp payment flows. It surely felt like a neat friction-less experience both for adding/mapping…
Migrating away from cash is intimidating – Stickiness of Cash Part 2

Migrating away from cash is intimidating – Stickiness of Cash Part 2

Ask any payment professional, and while they might disagree on what’s the best payment experience, they would all agree that…

Thin Mobile App or a Fat one – Digital banking toolkit

Mobile is the new frontier and banks know this well. Amongst the various choices to make as part of the…

Why mobile payments must arrive soon

I try to go walking on most weekdays. And I prefer to do so light – carry just the minimal…
Why I use Paytm for all bill payments except Airtel

Why I use Paytm for all bill payments except Airtel

Consumer behavior used to be a course that marketing folks took in 2nd year of Bschool. I stayed away , like…

Basics of Mobile Payments

Understanding the basics of Mobile Payments required me to find answers to these questions. What is a mobile payment What…

Mobile Payments Security – concerns, issues, threats, models and measures

One of the biggest reason why cash has still reigned supreme for purchases is the percieved safety it brings. It…

M PESA story

What are the things M PESA did right? Clean and focused campaign – “Send Money Home” – focused only on…

Consumer pitches for payment solutions

Any new payment solution seeks to change the consumer behavior in a significant way and hence tries to ride on…