Menu
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Contact
Blue Dun

Blue Dun

Category: Mobile Payments

jim

“Good People Don’t Smoke Marijuana.”

In Mobile Payments, RegulationTags paymentsPublish DateSeptember 7, 2022

September 7, 2022 Luckily for the burgeoning marijuana industry, we can’t all be as upstanding as Jeff Sessions, the author of this quote.  Thirty-eight states, Washington D. C., Puerto Rico, and Guam have all legalized marijuana to at least an extent. A large majority of Americans support legalization. And, by some estimates, legal sales (medical and recreational combined) will exceed $30 billion in the U.S. in 2022. But dispensaries and other cannabis-related businesses are operating in a grey area because, while federal regulators …

Continue Reading
jim
Doconomy: Banking Service With an Environmental Conscience

Doconomy: Banking Service With an Environmental Conscience

In Banking, FinTech, Mobile PaymentsTags Bank of the West, Carbon, Mastercard, SwedenPublish DateJune 17, 2020

June 17, 2020 Founded in September of 2018 by Helena Mueller, Johan Pihl, Mathias Wikström, Fredrik Lagertrad, and Nathalie Green, Doconomy is a mobile banking service developed to inspire changes in consumer behavior to reduce unsustainable consumption and …

Continue Reading
jim

Lydia Is Out to Conquer the Payments World

In FinTech, Mobile PaymentsTags France, P2P payments, PoSPublish DateOctober 24, 2017

Founded in 2011 by Cyril Chiche and Antoine Porte and launched in July 2013, Lydia is the leading mobile payment platform in France with over one million users, a number that is growing by more than …

Continue Reading
jim

Q&A with Will Graylin, CEO of Mobile Payments Startup Loop

In FinTech, Mobile PaymentsTags Loop, mobile paymentsPublish DateJune 17, 2014

Boston-based mobile payment start-up Loop was founded in 2013 by Will Graylin and George Wallner, two very smart guys who figured out how to emulate a mag-stripe credit card swipe with your phone. A user pays …

Continue Reading

Site Sidebar

Financial services, professional services, venture capital, marketing, and anything else that catches our fancy. But mostly fintech.

Subscribe


 

  • Accelerators
  • Alternative Lending
  • Banking
  • Blockchain
  • Capital Markets
  • Digital Identities
  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Innovation
  • Institutional Asset Management
  • Insurance
  • InsurTech
  • Marketing
  • Mobile
  • Mobile Payments
  • PFM
  • Private Credit
  • RegTech
  • Regulation
  • Retirement
  • SMEs
  • Startups
  • Sustainable Finance
  • Thoughts & Ramblings
  • Trade Finance
  • Venture Capital
  • Wealth Management

Quotable Quotes
“Whenever the old gives way to the new, everybody with vested interests in the old starts crying that the world will stop. There aren’t many people with vested interests in the new.”
— WALTER WRISTON

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
— GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”
— MARK TWAIN

Bookmarks
FinTech Sandbox
Observations from the Fintech Snark Tank
Revolutions Podcast
The Wine Chef

Site Footer

Copyright © 2025 Blue Dun LLC
Privacy Policy