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Archive for: December, 2010

Bo Harald - ZEF Solutions - Esbo | 30/12/2010 | 4675 views

What did I write?

Looking back – some of the most viewed posts: On EU: Questions European Tax Payers should ask: http://www.finextra.com/community/fullblog.aspx?id=2815 A digital Single Market – why and how?: http://www.finextra.com/community/Fullblog.aspx?id=4497 The future of Direct Debit – e-invoicing with standing order: http://www.finext... Tags: Online banking, Payments

Brett King - Movenbank - New York | 29/12/2010 | 6044 views

A Start-up Boom for the Finance Sector?

In 2010 we had a bunch of innovative ideas become mainstream and start to impact the banking arena (for a full coverage see my post in Huffington.) However, 2011 promises to be more disruptive because as the economy finally starts to warm up, we'll be seeing a lot of new private equity investment into start-ups in the finance arena. A new dot com... Tags: Payments, Retail banking

Uri Rivner - BioCatch - Tel Aviv | 23/12/2010 | 5361 views

ZeusiLeaks Archives File 001: The ex-Agent

OK folks, quick recap: if you think WikiLeaks is the largest leak of data the world has seen, think again. In fact, think two orders of magnitude bigger. Who needs a quarter of a million diplomatic cables, when we have the Zeus Trojan, most popular crimeware in the universe, sitting on millions of personal, corporate and government PCs stealing dat... Tags: Security, Online banking

Brett King - Movenbank - New York | 17/12/2010 | 9128 views

The Top 14 innovations in the banking arena for 2010

2010 was a bumper year for innovations in the retail banking and payments space. Below are some of the top innovations this year. Let me know how you rank these in respect to their ability to be real game changers for the banking arena. Which innovations do you think will survive on, and which will flame out? My big bet for 2011 is NFC (Near-Fi... Tags: Payments, Retail banking

Sanat Rao - Infosys Technologies Ltd - London | 17/12/2010 | 9611 views

The role of technology in banking innovation

Ask a dozen bankers about the relationship between technology and innovation, and the answer will either be ‘inseparable friendship’ or ‘uneasy truce’.... or something to that effect. I have observed, and research confirms, that this polarised viewpoint is linked to market maturity. Almost without exception, banks around the... Tags: Sibos