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Vilmos Levente Kovacs - Simplexion Informatikai Kft. - Budapest | 23/06/2011 | 3468 views | 1 comment

Will be bank account portability in Hungary?

The timing reason of the question is an announced of British banks that being on a verge of account portability implementation. Connection with same day clearing as if Hungary is might up to slip the most important condition. This most important condition is the standardization of bank - client communication. Without the standardization it is inco... Tags: Payments, Post-trade & ops

Vilmos Levente Kovacs - Simplexion Informatikai Kft. - Budapest | 15/06/2011 | 2573 views | 1 comment

Is it worth to establish a European card company?

It seems that the biggest European banks find the time has come to establish an own card company. Can be a new card company successful against the duopoly of VISA and MaterCard, so that China wants to establish its own one? It's not easy to answer yes to that question at first sight. However note that the NCF (Near Field Communication) chip i... Tags: Cards, Payments

Pierre Galeon - allpay - London | 13/06/2011 | 4163 views

The road ahead

Financial institutions, banks and credit cards companies, have invested billions of euros over the last 30 years on payments systems. However over time the complexity of the overall system architectures in place is proving hard to leverage to meet today's demands. But doing away with the old and start from scratch with the new will prove more diffi... Tags: Cards, Payments

Antti Larvala - CAL360 Degrees - Brussels | 07/06/2011 | 4212 views | 2 comments

How many PIN codes you can remember?

Every time I get new service or new card, I get new user name and new PIN code. As it is written in many data security manuals, never store your codes next to computer, mobile device or similar places, where it can be found. it is also written that newer use same user names or passwords to different places. Problem is that I will forget passwords ... Tags: Payments, Post-trade & ops

Antti Larvala - CAL360 Degrees - Brussels | 01/06/2011 | 3409 views | 1 comment

Online payments -more than card payments

I have been working with one client to research and open their eyes about different options about to pay online. For example, in my former native country- Finland- most of the people prefer to pay with online bank based debit payments over credit cards when doing business online. 70 % or more is exact number. It is easy, it is fast and both merchan... Tags: Mobile & online, Payments