It’s simply amazing to me how much is going on in mobile payments at the moment. Here’s a sample of some of the stories that I have seen just this week:

• The billion-dollar fight for control of mobile money
• Check-In Needs To Work, But How Can We Fix It?
• Mobile Payments: How to successfully innovate and scale
• Is 2012 the Inflection Point for Mobile Payments?
• Keen On… Why $50 Billion Is Small Change For SCVNGR (TCTV)
• Will Mobile Wallets Replace Their Traditional Counterparts?
• The Apple iWallet: Why The iPhone 5 Killer Feature is Mobile Payments

And then there is the completely open question of what Apple will do. 2012 is definitely going to be a very interesting year for mobile payments.