Around The Coin

Interview with Tor Norretranders:New book: Light! On light in life and the life in light Life in the early 80’s working in Danish broadcasting televisionInspiration for User Illusion - on being a 11 year old goalkeeper Covering Exformation Tough decisions on driverless carsIs Singularity a reality, and when? Benjamin Libet - ½ second delay, and when are we aware of a decision What is the future of...

Happy New Year. As 2016 starts, Brian & Faisal debate if "this" is the year for payments! Both agree that 2016 is the Goldilocks Year, where conditions will be just right for fintech and payment projects to take off. Sponsors:Otter Labs www.hireotter.com- Hire great and inexpensive developer with staff augmentation through Otter. Redeeem https://redeeem.click/qdza- Redeeem is a decen...

Facebook+Uber+Braintree, what are they up to? Apple Pay and Samsung enter China partner China Union Pay, Target's rumored new Wallet App using NFC, Global Payments acquires Heartland Payment systems, Pinterest Buyable pins now come with price tracking, plus new segments in our show! Sponsors:Otter Labs www.hireotter.com- Hire great and inexpensive developer with staff augmentation through Ott...

This week we talk about Walmart and its recently announced product: Walmart Pay, Faisal discusses the repercussions of low oil prices and then Brian and Mike discuss on the potential of Satoshi Nakamoto being unmasked and what it means for us. Sponsors:Otter Labs www.hireotter.com- Hire great and inexpensive developer with staff augmentation through Otter. Redeeem https://redeeem.click/qdza- Redee...

This week, Brian, Faisal and Mike discuss a wide variety of topics, and in between these, we talk about Apple Car, Edward Snowden, Strangulation by Regulation, Wall Street pressure, Jack Ma of Alibaba to Jack Mama! Summit at SeaSquare IPOBarclays fined againMartha Stewart moves to Amazon’s Handmade platformAmazon first physical storeMost US consumers plan to go to Amazon.com for their online holid...

This week, Brian, Faisal and Mike discuss Brian’s meet-up with Dave Birch, Brian’s new project called PayFinders, an Apple app for Apple Pay, we discuss the Amazon Prime Now lawsuit, Independent Contractors, China’s reversal of its One-Child per family policy, China vs India and Bitcoin volume/value, Ledgerless value transfers. Sponsors:Otter Labs www.hireotter.com- Hire great and inexpensive deve...

Square S1 thoughtsOne Women takes Square for millions- Rookie mistake takes 2 years to discover- solitary seller represented nearly 23% of Square’s transaction and advance losses for the first half of 2015 http://www.buzzfeed.com/nitashatiku/square-fraud-losses-single-sellerApple Pay turned 1 yearMicrosoft wallet (http://www.pymnts.com/news/2015/microsoft-takes-another-look-at-mobile-payments/) Id...

Apple Pay & Starbucks + Lyft & Stripe instant payout. Head of Apple Pay Jennifer Bailey Shares How Apple is Winning LocalJennifer Bailey - retail experience expert and head of apple pay discloses that Apple is using the existing merchant sales people, 370,00 in the US to distribute and educate the merchants across the country. Also we discussed the impact of immediate payouts for marketpla...

Episode 79: In this special episode Mike & Faisal interview Peter Ohser, EVP (Business Development) for MoneyGram, one of the large incumbents in the money transfer space. Sponsors:Otter Labs www.hireotter.com- Hire great and inexpensive developer with staff augmentation through Otter. Redeeem https://redeeem.click/qdza- Redeeem is a decentralized peer-to-peer exchange that lets you save 15% o...

This week we discuss: Trump Hotels & T-Mobile Hacks, EMV in America and what it means for usBen Milne’s Blog article on BlockchainPoor Bitcoin - has it lost its lusterUnderstanding the Psychology of MarketplacesSponsors:Otter Labs www.hireotter.com- Hire great and inexpensive developer with staff augmentation through Otter. Redeeem https://redeeem.click/qdza- Redeeem is a decentralized peer-to...

This week we discuss a host of newsworthy items, from Braintree's recent announcement of the volume they are doing (US$ 50 Billion) and the 154 Million cards on file. We also briefly touch on the voice biometrics for authorizing payments. Stripe's launch of relay to make mobile shopping easier, and believe it or not - The Kardashians! (how they were hacked as soon as they came out with a...

This week Brian and Faisal discuss the Faisal's recent travels to Africa to discover and learn about mobile payments in Africa, part of the financial inclusion discovery tour. Faisal discusses the mobile payments landscape in Tanzania and how mobile payments are being used by all facets of society. In addition Faisal also discusses his recent trip to the labor camps in Dubai and how migrant w...

This week Brian and Mike cruise through recent news, giving insight to the recent PayAnywhere & Apple exclusive partnership, breaking down what it takes to get a successful partnership with Apple. We chat about the international world of payments in Kenya’s recent partnership with PayPal and end discussing the changing landscape of 1099 independent contractor models vs W-2 employee model and w...

Today Mike Townsend and guest host Zachary Damato interviewed Gadi Ruchin, Founder and VP Sales at OGY Docs. Sponsors:Otter Labs www.hireotter.com- Hire great and inexpensive developer with staff augmentation through Otter. Redeeem https://redeeem.click/qdza- Redeeem is a decentralized peer-to-peer exchange that lets you save 15% or more on gift cards using Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Lear...

Today we had Mike Townsend and guest host Zachary Damato interviewing Jonathan Levin, Co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer at Chainanlysis out of the TechStars office in NYC.Sponsors:Otter Labs www.hireotter.com- Hire great and inexpensive developer with staff augmentation through Otter. Redeeem https://redeeem.click/qdza- Redeeem is a decentralized peer-to-peer exchange that lets you save 15% or...

This week Brian and Faisal discuss the landscape of payments, reflecting back on 1.5 years of Around The Coin podcast and discuss what's going to happen in the payments space for months to come. Who will die out, who will shine and who will be the big surprise. Sponsors:Otter Labs www.hireotter.com- Hire great and inexpensive developer with staff augmentation through Otter. Redeeem https://re...

In this episode of Around The Coin, Faisal Khan interviews Laurent Oberholzer & Francois Briod, Co-Founders of Tawipay, startup based out of Switzerland, that specializes in Remittance (Money Transfer) comparison. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Around The Coin, we had the great privilege to interview, Ralph Dangelmaier, CEO of BlueSnap. Sponsors:Otter Labs www.hireotter.com- Hire great and inexpensive developer with staff augmentation through Otter. Redeeem https://redeeem.click/qdza- Redeeem is a decentralized peer-to-peer exchange that lets you save 15% or more on gift cards using Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Learn...

Mike, Brian and Faisal interview Les Riedl, CEO of GlobeOne and their ambitious plan to sign up 50 Million customers by 2020.Sponsors:Otter Labs www.hireotter.com- Hire great and inexpensive developer with staff augmentation through Otter. Redeeem https://redeeem.click/qdza- Redeeem is a decentralized peer-to-peer exchange that lets you save 15% or more on gift cards using Bitcoin and other crypto...

While visiting New York, Mike Townsend drops in at the Techstar / 2015 Barclays Accelerator. Mike meets up with Tommy Nicholas (Alloy), Jonathan Levin (Chainanalysis), Gadi Ruschin (Ogydocs), Rachel Cook (Seeds) and Jenny Fielding of Techstars. Sponsors:Otter Labs www.hireotter.com- Hire great and inexpensive developer with staff augmentation through Otter. Redeeem https://redeeem.click/qdza- Rede...

This week we discuss Mike Townsend (our co-host), who raised US$ 20+ Million in venture capital funding for his Senior Care Startup called HomeHero. Congrats Mike! Brian gives his perspective on the separation of Ebay and Paypal. PayPal's acquisition of Xoom and how we would be seeing the new roaring PayPal and more Brian's prediction that more acquisitions would be coming PayPal's...

In this episode of Around The Coin, Brian and Faisal talk about Apple Pay and the recently introduced Android Pay. We also talk about Dwolla's free payments and would payments eventually become free? Also, we touch upon how such ecosystems are changing banking, slowly changing financial services. Sponsors:Otter Labs www.hireotter.com- Hire great and inexpensive developer with staff augmentati...

Interview with Nicolas Mertens, CEO of Sign2Pay (www.sign2pay.com). Interview conducted by Faisal KhanSponsors:Otter Labs www.hireotter.com- Hire great and inexpensive developer with staff augmentation through Otter. Redeeem https://redeeem.click/qdza- Redeeem is a decentralized peer-to-peer exchange that lets you save 15% or more on gift cards using Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Learn more...

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