Contactless sentiment

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Social media sentiment provides a useful perspective on the evolution of contactless payments in the UK.

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Japan and the US are special cases for mobile payments

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The US shouldn’t look at Japan as a model for mobile payments, and Europe shouldn’t look at the US.

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Payment system regulation as barrier to payment system innovation

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The new payment systems regulator is tasked with increasing innovation. This means increasing competition, which means reducing barriers to entry.

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Contactless innovation in wearables (nothing new!)

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I’m a big believer in wearables (not watches). But then I have been for a while.

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Bitcoin wasn’t designed for retail payments

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Bitcoin may never be the best retail payments mechanism, but that doesn’t matter, because retail payments aren’t really what it is all about.

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Cash hits the excluded

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There are good reasons for providing electronic payment systems to the less formal parts of the economy, for people who deserve better than cash.

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Payments are boring (not to me, obviously)

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The horrible truth is that payments are boring, so they are going to go away.

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Receipts are a way to make wallets better

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One of the things that a digital wallet can do better than a leather one is manage receipts.

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Cheques will still be the first payment mechanism to disappear

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Cheques are expensive, insecure and slow. Digitising isn’t going to help them.

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London money soon please

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We see currency as a national concept. By why not regional, or even city-based currency?

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