Internet retailer

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[Dave Birch] In case anyone wants to pop in and say hello (or “you don’t know what you’re talking about” or something similar) I’ll be at the Internet Retailer show in London. I’m giving the keynote presentation in the Payments and Strategy track at 9am, talking about what’s happening in online payments and what’s likely to happen over the next couple years.

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Innovative Italians

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[Dave Birch] I’ve been in Milan for a client, running a workshop for bankers, which gave me a chance to catch up on the Italian payments world. One of the ways in which it is interestingly different from the UK market is the rapid growth of prepaid cards here. The Post Office (Poste Italiane) has three-quarters of the market with its Postepay card which is based on the Visa Electron platform. It has more than 2 million cards in circulation already and 20,000 new ones are issued each week. Why is prepaid so successful here?

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