Christopher Miller

Lead Analyst, Emerging Payments

Christopher helps Emerging Payments clients cut through the hype and the headlines surrounding new and emerging payments technologies.  With over a decade of experience distilling trends into priorities, Christopher’s research offers a key to prioritizing investments into “what’s next” for payments, helping financial institutions remain relevant as consumer preferences and technological capabilities continue to shift.

Christopher’s background includes times as a graduate student and college history professor focused on US Urban History in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A fan of hiking, cycling and travel, Christopher spends his spare time working for Major League Baseball providing technical support for live game tracking activities. 

Christopher has a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Gonzaga University and a PhD in History from Marquette University.

Latest Insights

November, 2024
Javelin Report
Imagining a Cardless U.S. Payments Landscape, Part 2

The physical card—whether credit, debit, or prepaid—is the great driver of transactions across the payments landscape, wielded by large percentages of consumers regardless of age. ...

November, 2024
Javelin Report
2025 Emerging Payments Trends

In 2025, Payments will continue to feel the impact of three key trends that have been at work for the last decade and more. 2025 is the time when the nature of these impact will be...

September, 2024
Javelin Report
Have You Been on a Digital-Only Magic Carpet Ride?

The digital-only payer—one who has left behind the physical wallet and its tangible payment forms—is a popular creature in the media, one who fronts declarations that all-digital p...

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