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Will banks lose out to tech companies on P2P?

Over the past several months, I have had several discussions with clients, both in Spain and in the UK, who are interested in implementing a simple, straight-forward P2P service which would allow two ...

07 Dec 2011
Innovation in Financial Services
Bo Harald

Harmonizing VAT

This is the natural next step after the VAT directive simplyfying life for SMEs. now banks should move in to provide the reporting sidestream in their e-invoicing services and in parallel develope the...

06 Dec 2011
Innovation in Financial Services
A Finextra Member

Do you have bloatware or Compliance-as-a-Service?

Key to any financial institution is the identification and management of risk. IT compliance certainly fits inside this category, where the implementation of controls to meet compliance also has an ...

01 Dec 2011
Innovation in Financial Services
Bo Harald

The original invoice ghost

The EC Expert Group on e-Invoicing - and especially its corporate members worked hard on eliminating mandatory digital signatures. DG Taxud took the clear stand that paper-, e-mail and electronic invo...

27 Nov 2011
Innovation in Financial Services
Pat Carroll

Interest in data theft goes mainstream

It’s not every day that you see banking security reported in a tabloid read by 2.7 million people across the UK, but The Sun’s interest in data theft highlights just how mainstream the topic has becom...

24 Nov 2011
Innovation in Financial Services
Brett King

A Dictator or Retail Bank. Which is Easier to Save?

Bankers often talk about the 'trust' consumers have in banking as a defining characteristic of why customers give banks their money instead of simply keeping it under a mattress. Some bankers might ha...

23 Nov 2011
Innovation in Financial Services
A Finextra Member

Finance leaders: Looking to Generation Z and Education

Looking Back 100 years At a recent presentation at a Global Creative Innovation Conference, the audience was challenged to identify three (3) industries that had barely changed systematically over th...

20 Nov 2011
Innovation in Financial Services
Pat Carroll

Isis 1 year on: don't forget security on NFC payments

Happy birthday, Isis! This week sees the one-year anniversary of the initial launch of Isis, the US joint venture formed by AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless to create a national mobile payments...

18 Nov 2011
Innovation in Financial Services
Brett King

The Instincts of Banking are Changing...again

Without thinking consciously about it, over time core behaviors change producing different instinctive reactions. When a phone rings today, we go to our pocket or purse, not running to a device on a d...

18 Nov 2011
Innovation in Financial Services
A Finextra Member

eBAM: All the Hype, Again

Electronic bank account management (eBAM), an automated approach to the opening, closing and management of bank accounts seems simple, right? So simple in fact, that when the idea was first introduced...

18 Nov 2011
Innovation in Financial Services
Bo Harald

It is not about procurement

E-invoicing has been around in large enterprises for ages. As it started in EDIFACT environment it was natural to go deep into point-to-point integration in all aspects of procurement processes. This ...

14 Nov 2011
Innovation in Financial Services
Bo Harald

EBA on e-invoicing

https://www.ebaportal.eu/link.aspx?PageGuid=388a67b9-584e-4c96-8c76-0aa3fe341dbc

10 Nov 2011
Innovation in Financial Services

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