Tag Archives: MasterCard

November 21, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

MasterCard Gives SMBs a Leg-Up

By Ben Kepes

I’m a small and mid-sized business guy – I spend a lot of time advocating for the “little guy”. As such I’m always happy to see large companies do their bit to help SMBs compete. An interesting example of that is the MasterCard business network I recently heard about –

Tagged Business, Expensify, MasterCard, Yelp |

October 25, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Mambu Aiming to Power a banking Disruption

By Ben Kepes

A recurring theme that I talk about is how traditional sectors, bloated with process and seemingly unable to innovate, are ripe for disruption. Two areas of particular interest are the telecommunications and banking industries. banking in particular is an industry that is heavily protected by regulation. This regulation helps it

Tagged banking 2.0, Credit union, finserv, mambu, MasterCard, microfinance, Western Union |

May 14, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

More SaaS Integration from MuleSoft

By Ben Kepes

I’ve spent a fair amount of time in the past few months talking with businesses trying to wrangle the integration of different applications. Despite lots of APIs, the cloud, mobile devices, the democratization of IT and many other current themes, application integration is still hard, painful and requires a far

Tagged Application programming interface, dataintegration, MasterCard, MuleSoft, netsuite, Platform as a service, SnapLogic, Software as a Service |

Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.