Perpeetum Mobile When I was in 5th grade, at the end of the academic year, just before the start of the summer vacation, our Physics teacher shared with us a “big secret”: he invented a “perpetuum mobile” machine. He went on a rant about how he has it all designed, could not build it because he did […]
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The Vanishing Custom Electronics or Why We Invested in Mobeewave
This will be a short blog post, as I have already blogged before about my thinking regarding investing in mobile payments and the concept of “software defined anything“. In summary, I believe that we will have less and less specialised hardware devices for payments, and the ubiquitous mobile phone will become the default form factor […]
Software-defined Payments Infrastructure
Software-defined anything (SDx) is a new term, attempting to name a collection of standards for computing infrastructure programmability and data center interoperability. It started with software-defined networking (SDN), which enables the separation of the networking logic and policies into software, decoupled from the individual hardware device. Think functionality similar to Cisco or Juniper network devices […]
Figuring It All Out at MobeyDay 2012
Last week, together with over 250 mobile banking professionals from across 20 European countries I have traveled to Barcelona for a day of networking and debate at MobeyDay, hosted by “la Caixa” and organized by the Mobey Forum and Finextra Research. Excellent organization and a full agenda have provided all of us an opportunity to […]
Sberbank 2.0
I have been interviewed recently by Tatiana Naumova for a Russian investment magazine. Since the interview will be published in Russian translation, I am including here the (slightly edited) English transcript. 4 main directions for innovation in Sberbank this year – in our interview with the Director of Technology Research Center Dr. Mircea Mihaescu. Author […]