Mobile Payments

The reasons a retailer is behind the most successful mobile payments solution

Which mobile payments app has the most users? If you guessed Apple Pay, Google Pay or Samsung Pay – hereafter referred to as the Three Pays – you guessed wrong.

Despite the efforts of three of tech’s biggest names to drive adoption of their mobile payments solutions, it’s a retailer that has the most widely used mobile payments solution as measured by users.

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How Lush is raising the bar for in-store experience

With over 1,000 stores across the globe, cosmetics business Lush is no longer an underdog. Once considered a somewhat niche brand – with an odd mix of ethical dedication and a decidedly sunny personality to promote it – it has since broken through to the mainstream. Today, it’s widely thought of as one of the […]

Can big banks catch up to Venmo with P2P payments app Zelle?

Digital disruption has impacted just about every industry and one could make an argument that perhaps nowhere is the disruption more evident than in financial services.

Despite the fact that entrenched financial services firms, including big banks, have almost unfathomable amounts of money, in almost every financial services market, upstarts have sought to dethrone the entrenched players.

How Cancer Research is using smart technology to drive fundraising

Most London benches are a bit grim, usually marred by wet leaves and leftover kebabs. Naturally, a much shinier-looking bench caught my attention as I walked near Old Street the other day. 

Upon further inspection, I discovered it was a Cancer Research ‘smart bench’ – one of many installed around the city earlier this year.