Identified as one of MEF’s “10 Key Mobile Trends for 2015”, the creation of methods to convert “cash” to “digital money” is key to enabling mobile & Internet commerce. How does an aspirational consumer in an emerging market take their real cash and buy goods with their mobile? Here, Peter…

MEF’s recently published mHealth and Wearables Report 2015 which revealed the usage trends and attitudes of 15,000 mobile consumers in 15 countries indicated that the adoption of health and fitness apps globally has grown year on year by more than a third, from 11 to 15 per cent.  Similarly, the use…

Identified as one MEF’s “10 Key Mobile Trends for 2015”, carrier billing is a major driver behind the global growth in digital content sales. Carrier billing enables consumers to buy apps, games, music and other content by charging the cost to their mobile bill, in one or more taps. Here,…

The Barclays Accelerator, powered by Techstars, is a start-up accelerator programme designed to champion and support new innovative companies in the FinTech space. It offers companies that make it through the selection process an amazing array of benefits including seed investment from Techstars, exclusive access to Barclays APIs & data and world class…