Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Nick LeCuyer, VP of Strategy and Distribution at Western Union Digital (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: I think the other thing that is happening on the mobile wallet end and the SME world is that there is a lot of impact of the mobile payment technology happening. Nowadays you can go to a flea market and accept credit card payments on your phone. There are a lot of similar

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Nick LeCuyer, VP of Strategy and Distribution at Western Union Digital (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What is the upshot of all this? The fact that it is so much more convenient nowadays to do a transaction – you can send money directly from your mobile phone. Has that increased the volume and the frequency at which people make use of the service? Nick LeCuyer: I will talk about

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Nick LeCuyer, VP of Strategy and Distribution at Western Union Digital (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What are some of the other mobile payment innovations that you are monitoring and what are your observations about those? Nick LeCuyer: There is a wide range of innovation going on. Those innovations span different sorts of markets – they span low-end to high-end devices, different classes of financial services, etc. There are

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Nick LeCuyer, VP of Strategy and Distribution at Western Union Digital (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s take that case and transfer it to a mobile money transfer scenario. Does it mean that both parties – the sender and the receiver – need to have your app on their mobile phones? Nick LeCuyer: Absolutely not. That has been a core principal of how we designed our digital services, which

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Nick LeCuyer, VP of Strategy and Distribution at Western Union Digital (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Then there is international money transfer. There are all sorts of mobile payment technologies happening. Could you talk a bit more about these developments, how you process these trends, and what decisions you are taking in the domain of mobile payment?

Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Nick LeCuyer, VP of Strategy and Distribution at Western Union Digital (Part 1)

Nick LeCuyer is the vice president of strategy and distribution at Western Union Digital. He holds an MBA from the University of Michigan and a BSE in civil engineering from Princeton University and had more than 13 years of experience in corporate strategy as well as consulting. In this interview, Nick talks about the role

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