Industry Strategy
Why do many P2P money transfer companies eventually pivot toward B2B payments?
Feb 2, 2023
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
Which large companies missed out on the payments opportunity?
Apr 10, 2020
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
Why hasn’t PayPal launched another major breakthrough product in recent years?
Dec 12, 2018
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
If Ripple is a first mover in bank-based international transfers, how can competitors survive?
Nov 7, 2018
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
How do traditional banks respond to the rise of challenger banks?
Nov 6, 2018
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
Why should local banks expand internationally?
Feb 11, 2018
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
What is Google doing well in payments, and what is it doing poorly?
Jul 1, 2016
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
What are the implications of a telco like Smart (Philippines) partnering with Rocket Internet to launch a payments product, and is it likely to succeed?
Jun 3, 2016
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
Should I combine remittances, bill pay, mobile top-ups, and merchant payments into one app, or build separate apps?
May 2, 2016
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
Why is every major tech company building its own payment platform?
May 1, 2016
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
How would widespread adoption of Ripple affect SWIFT and CLS in terms of market share and revenue?
Apr 8, 2016
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
Will PayPal be disrupted by newer payment technology companies like Stripe?
Apr 1, 2016
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
When and how might technology companies disrupt consumer banking?
Jan 1, 2016
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
What are the most innovative banking services available today?
Dec 12, 2015
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
What are the most urgent challenges banks are facing today?
Sep 11, 2015
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
What would happen if Western Union started operating as a Bitcoin exchange?
Sep 9, 2015
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
Will Facebook be able to significantly disrupt the online payments industry?
Jun 9, 2015
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
How might Ripple’s payments network impact PayPal and Stripe?
Jun 7, 2015
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
Why did Visa advertise during the 2014 World Cup final when most people choose cards based on factors other than the network brand?
Mar 7, 2015
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
How disruptive could Facebook be in the payments industry?
Mar 6, 2015
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
Banks: Which financial services brand is doing a strong job marketing “innovation”?
Feb 8, 2015
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
What is an effective way to define target customer segments in the payments industry?
Jan 5, 2015
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
What are the main barriers for Skype to enter the remittance market?
Dec 8, 2014
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
Why haven’t startups—or Facebook—leveraged Facebook’s massive user base for money-transfer services?
Dec 4, 2014
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
What unique advantage made PayPal so successful in its early days?
Nov 8, 2014
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
What are PayPal’s main strategic objectives?
Nov 8, 2014
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
How can retailers who import goods from China compete with sellers based in China?
Nov 3, 2014
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
Is PayPal better led by an executive from a company like AmEx or by a startup-style CEO?
Oct 2, 2014
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
What is likely to be Facebook’s overall payments strategy?
Sep 6, 2014
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
Are Visa Checkout and MasterPass genuine threats to PayPal, and how should PayPal respond?
Aug 7, 2014
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
Why are international banks withdrawing from the Pakistani market?
Jun 9, 2014
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
How did Quora manage to attract so many subject-matter experts to the platform?
Apr 6, 2014
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
Why has PayPal failed to become the universal standard for internet payments?
Apr 5, 2014
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
Why hasn’t PayPal introduced its own virtual currency?
Apr 4, 2014
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
Are customers more inclined to visit a bank branch if it resembles an Apple Store or a lounge-style environment?
Mar 8, 2014
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
Why aren’t banks typically opened or operated inside shopping malls?
Jan 10, 2014
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
How hard is it to disrupt the electronic payments space?
Aug 12, 2013
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
How significantly will smartphones disrupt the electronic payment industry?
Jun 12, 2013
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
Why are banks opening more physical branches in the digital age?
Jun 8, 2013
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
What creative strategies can a fashion e-commerce site use to acquire customers?
May 7, 2013
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
Online Payment Gateways and Processing: Can someone explain the likely reasons behind Nokia Money shutting down in India?
Apr 3, 2013
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
Why did Nokia Money shut down in India?
Apr 3, 2013
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
Which Pakistani bank is most advanced digitally and strongest in social media performance?
Mar 6, 2013
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
How might the Visa–JPMorgan partnership affect the payments industry?
Mar 4, 2013
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
What effective strategies exist for marketing products to banking professionals?
Jan 8, 2013
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
Is PayPal’s value proposition still meaningful today?
Dec 2, 2012
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
What are the optimistic and pessimistic scenarios for Facebook Payments?
Nov 12, 2012
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
If you had $1M for a business (no storefront allowed), what would you launch?
Sep 8, 2012
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
Why hasn’t a significantly cheaper alternative to payment processing emerged?
Feb 9, 2012
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned
Why hasn’t a significantly cheaper alternative to payment processing emerged yet?
Feb 9, 2012
Business Strategy, Case Studies and Lessons Learned