Isis' openness to other banks and credit card processors was part of the April press release, which focused on a Salt Lake City pilot of smartphones set for mid-2012, although the openness part was given less emphasis by Isis, as well as Computerworld and others' coverage. Gartner analyst Mark Hung said that Citibank is widely known to be working with Isis, but Johnson said he couldn't confirm Citibank's involvement. While he noted Isis has been talking to all the major banks and credit card processors for months, he refused to confirm any others are involved. Johnson said that Discover and Barclaybank were "initial" participants, and refused to call them "exclusive" to Isis. " we're not any closer to mobile payments in the U.S. "This Wall Street Journal account is a matter of semantics," said Bob Egan, an analyst at The Sepharim Group. Perhaps Isis had planned to draw in large credit card companies like Visa all along but started small, several analysts said. Johnson argued that the Journal story, widely reported by other media including Computerworld, was "profoundly incorrect," because Isis had already announced it was "opening up the platform to all payment networks and platforms."īut analysts said Johnson's concerns about the report were overblown, even if the article was late, because Isis was clearly planning to work with Barclaybank US and Discover Financial Services when it was conceived last year.
0 kommentar(er)
