All Payments Expo 2015 - Dates Announced

All Payments Expo is THE meeting place for the world's most successful merchants, payments companies, banks and technology firms. Industry leaders come together to create partnerships, launch new products, develop new business and explore innovations 

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Top Reasons to Attend:

More Retailers

APEX attracts 300+ retailers annually to meet with vendors, re-sign contracts and scout out new potential vendors. Retailers also meet with peers for industry benchmarking, networking and to uncover tactics and challenges to grow programs across plastic and digital platforms.     

New Faces

You'll meet more executives who are relevant to all the areas of your business, with a flood of new participants. New attendees hail from retail's IT, Marketing and Corporate Strategy functions; new app developers (from wallets to loyalty); alternative financial services  CEOs, merchant acquirers; cyptocurrency players and more.

Secure Meetings

All APEX attendees will have access to the attendee list on our proprietary partneringONE platform, where you can vet potential partners and easily pre-arrange meetings. More than 5,000 meetings take place onsite annually.          

Growth Opportunities for Prepaid

With prepaid maturing, this is THE place to identify new customer segments, distribution opportunities and use cases that take your prepaid business into unsaturated territory.

Register now and you can save $400! Plus, as a blog reader you can receive an extra $100 off the standard rate, by using the code “XU2848BLOG”, a total savings of $500 - Register Now! 

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Live From All Payments Expo & FinTech Partnerships - Morning of Day 2

The first session of the morning was a very informational discussion -  Partner or Perish: Corporate Venturing's Role in Payments Partnerships

Moderator:
Jim Hale - FTV Capital

Panelists:
Robert Schiff - McKinsey & Company
Kevin Jacques - Intuit
Jay Reinemann - BBVA

Presentations from:
Shamir Karkal - Simple
Michael Diamond - Mitek

Discussion highlights:

2013 Corporate Venture Capital Investment in US:
- First non bubble year ever that more than 10% of the total VC deployed came from corporate VC groups
- Total CVC invested up to 39% in 2013 over 2012 (3.1B vs 2.2B)


Pitfalls to get VC partnerships started - how to go to market and convince your corporate management team:
- Executive leadership team, forward thinking and understanding the problem
- Show the cycles to your management team, walk them through the longevity
- Need curiosity
- Be careful how you set up the governance mechanism

You need to measure success both strategically and financially - where is the partnership going and are you on the right path?

Remember to track the impact that your team is having.

10 years ago advantage rested alone with the largest companies - today the situation is almost completely reversed because of small and medium businesses new adoption and solutions.

2.5 million money making households outside the banking industry - tapping this market has a high potential. The concept; build new payment rails that will force adoption.

Thank you to the outstanding panel and stay tuned for more live recaps from All Payments Expo & FinTech Partnerships.

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Square Inks Payments Partnership with Whole Foods

Via Mashable
 
Early this morning, Square and Whole Foods announced a partnership to process payments at select locations.

This is Square’s first partnership with a major grocery chain – this Whole Foods partnership is Square's most prominent retail partner since Starbucks agreed to use the startup's digital payment products in 2012.

“Whole Foods Market and Square share a focus on supporting local sellers and creating amazing shopping experiences,” Jack Dorsey, cofounder and CEO of Square, said in a statement. “With Square, Whole Foods Market will enable commerce in more parts of their stores with easy, accessible tools that showcase the best of what’s achievable in the service of retailers and customers.”

Square's point-of-sale system – The Square Stand – is currently being used at seven different Whole Foods locations and will be at more stores this year. However, Square is not being used for Whole Foods' main checkout lines - rather, the payment tool is being used at "in-store venues," including sandwich counters, juice bars and pizzerias.

As Square has been rumored to be prepping for an IPO, this partnership between Square and Whole Foods comes at a perfect time. Square reportedly generated more than $100 million in revenue last year and major partnerships like this one could help boost that number even higher.

All Payments Expo is where payments partnerships get started. The annual meeting place for payments professionals focused on areas of growth and convergence in payments. Our mission is to catalyze the partnerships necessary to build the next generation of payments, from the mobile environment to the brick-and-mortar POS.

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20% of U.S. Smartphone Owners Used a Mobile Wallet in 2013

One-fifth of U.S. smartphone owners – 40 million Americans – used a mobile wallet in 2013, according to Parks Associates. The firm goes deeper and forecasts that the number of mobile wallet users will continue to grow 183% to 113 million by 2017 – that is 43% of the U.S. smartphone owners.

The significant increase in mobile wallet adoption is projected due to the surge in new payment technologies. These new technologies have a much broader application than mobile wallet technologies of old – mobile loyalty programs along with in-store marketing, will give smartphone users and merchants a greater incentive to start using/accepting mobile wallets.

When thinking of mobile wallets, one often thinks NFC. However, the most used mobile wallet apps actually use barcodes/QR codes – for these apps there is no need for merchants to replace their POS hardware, a simple upgrade allows for adoption (unlike NFC wallets that require a new POS system).

At All Payments Expo this March, find partners to expand your commerce capabilities and determine how new devices are reshaping the payments business model. This is the only event that attracts the highest volume and caliber of decision makers from across the payments ecosystem. Attendees span every link of the value chain - allowing you to take your business to the next level, and solidify relationships with existing clients and customers.

Our mission is to catalyze the partnerships necessary to build the next generation of payments, from the mobile environment to the brick-and-mortar POS.

This is a MUST attend event – Register Today!

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Partnering Round Up: 12/23 – 1/3

All Payments Expo is committed to catalyzing value add partnerships for the betterment of the ecosystem. Here’s the weekly roundup of partnership news:

•  “FAA Federal Credit Union, University of Nebraska Federal Credit Union and Valley Credit Union have selected industry partners CheckAlt, iParse and CU Wireless as their mobile deposit solution provider. The move signals the company’s intention to expand their partnerships into 2014.” To learn more about this partnership, click here.

• “MasterCard, eServGlobal and BICS have announced the formation of HomeSend, a joint venture which will enable consumers to send money to and from mobile money accounts, payment cards and bank accounts regardless of their location.” To learn more about this partnership, click here.

•  “Q2, a provider of enterprise solutions for secure virtual banking, together with Urban Partnership Bank, has announced the successful implementation of upbAnywhere for online and mobile banking. Using the Q2platform, Urban Partnership Bank account holders can now securely access their bank accounts and manage money whenever and wherever they want using a computer, tablet or mobile phone.” To learn more about this partnership, click here.

• “Bank of America Merill Lynch has signed a multi-year agreement with cross-border PSP Earthport that will significantly expand the bank’s low value clearing capabilities worldwide, and advance the efficiency of its high volume, low value payments.” To learn more about this partnership, click here.

Click here for more information on partnering and how you can guarantee ROI at All Payments Expo.

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Partnering Round Up: 11/18 - 11/22

All Payments Expo is committed to catalyzing value add partnerships for the betterment of the ecosystem. Here’s the weekly roundup of partnership news: 

“African telecommunications giant MTN, and world leading e-payment service provider Visa, have come into partnership to offer customers a mobile payment solution which allows MTN Mobile Money customers to make online transactions wherever Visa is accepted.”  To read the full article,  click here.

“WunWun triples orders since launch, partners with Dwolla for payment” To read the full article, click here.

“Our extended partnership with Green Dot now allows our cardholders to load funds to their prepaid cards at more than 4,000 Walmart stores that offer Walmart’s Rapid Reload service.” said MasterCard Group Executive of U.S. Market Development, Craig Vosburg. To read the full article, click here.

"SumAll, the leading provider of connected data analytics, today announced a partnership with Simplify Commerce by MasterCard that makes it easy for merchants to accept e-commerce and mobile commerce payments, regardless of payment brand, in a matter of minutes." To read the full announcement, click here.

"Visa has announced a strategic alliance with global prepaid processor i2c, Inc., affirming its commitment to the growing prepaid market in Asia-Pacific, Central Europe, Middle East & Africa (APCEMEA)." Read the full article here.

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PARTNERING is taking center stage at All Payments Expo

Here's why payments companies MUST partner: 

Industry Convergence: 
Incumbent institutions are being joined by new companies and industries entering the payments space, giving everyone opportunities to leverage the strengths of other players.

Interoperability: 
An interoperable infrastructure is necessary to facilitate widespread acceptance of new payment types, making unionification crucial in the evolving ecosystem. 

Innovation: 
New players bring new strategies- and much-needed data, scale or functionalities to augment existing product pipelines. 

Independence from Old Business Models: 
Payments' rapid-fire evolution is set to change the revenue structure for the entire industry, making new partnerships with creative players a must. 

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