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Matthew Dragiff - SunGard AvantGard Payment Services - Jacksonville | 31/01/2011 | 3817 views

Funding Your Accounts Payable Automation Projects Part Two

Turn Your A/P Cost Center into a Revenue Generator!As a follow on to my last post, Funding Your Accounts Payable Automation Projects, which discussed the use of virtual card technology to earn rebates, I thought it would be useful to offer an example of revenue potential. A corporation that prints and mails (5,000) checks per month at a cost of $1... Tags: Cards, Payments

Antti Larvala - CAL360 Degrees - Brussels | 28/01/2011 | 6607 views | 6 comments

E-invoice and direct debit as online payment

When meeting merchants who offer services online, most of them one day ask is there any other option than card based systems, where fees run up to 2,5 % or even 4 % per transaction. Of course there are other options but card payments are most common and accepted world wide. Sometimes I have wondered for example if Amazon could offer me e-invoice o... Tags: Payments, Retail banking

Antti Larvala - CAL360 Degrees - Brussels | 25/01/2011 | 3598 views | 1 comment

Dual chip phone for payments without option to talk

Over 10 years ago my former employee (bank) with mobile manufacturer was dreaming of building dual chip mobile handset. It was planned to have one chip card for SIM and other for card payments. It never realized. Since that I have been following several mobile payment trials. Now I am keen to hear how Google will solve this dilemma. When browsin... Tags: Cards, Payments

Matthew Dragiff - SunGard AvantGard Payment Services - Jacksonville | 21/01/2011 | 3544 views | 1 comment

Funding Your Accounts Payable Automation Projects

Often times, we see automation technology implemented in the same sequence as A/P processes. Areas such as document scanning, OCR, e-Invoicing, imaging, workflow and payment approval are addressed before payment execution. But did you know that payment execution has the potential to fund other A/P automation efforts? The latest trend among corpora... Tags: Cards, Payments

Miloslav Hoschek - Miloslav Hoschek Consulting - Dublin | 05/01/2011 | 3141 views

Can be a Global Money Supply Measured in Multiples of Bits?

Can we then measure the global money supply for instance in yottabits, or 1.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000 bits? cont. copyright Miloslav HOSCHEK PhD independent consultantmhoschek/ad/gmail.com Tags: Risk & regulation, Post-trade & ops