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CEO and Senior Prepaid Consultant at Emotion Associates - the UK's only dedicated Prepaid Marketing and Consultancy Agency.

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Banks need to do more about Fraud internally

I agree with Marite Ferrero's comments but I also think this is a tough one simply because fraudsters - being fraudsters - will find a way anyway. However, that is not to say nothing should be done. A lot of prepaid card companies already have a block/unblock option which allows cardholders to block/unblock their card using a secure code/PIN and ...

12 September 2008 Innovation in Financial Services

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Prepaid industry holding its breath!

Innovative as hell!!! Now everyone in the prepaid industry needs to hold their breath and see if things go full circle and crooks start paying for guns with prepaid cards! Compliance ain't going to be happy. Now, must shut up!!

28 August 2008

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Watch more 'Lost and Found' details emerge!

Hardly surprising that there is ever more information emerging about consumer details under 'lost or found' - either lost (in transit, on cds, laptops, etc) or found (on items which have been sold, dumped, stolen, etc). Over the past 18 months, there have been repeated disclosures by the government and other agencies about data being 'lost or mispl...

27 August 2008

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Kipochi integrates bitcoin wallet with M-Pesa

Love the bit about - actively blocking both US IP addresses and Phone numbers from the wallet because of regulatory fears.

Guess, the desire to launch and the PR value from being the first to launch supercedes the need to get regulatory approval first. 

09 Jul 2013 15:44 Read comment

Pakistan uses pre-paid cards to distribute aid to flood victims

Agree with David Carr. I think its a nice gesture and makes a statement of sorts but how helpful it actually is on the ground due to the infrastructure is at best questionable.

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Is Google censoring searches now?

Hi Dean - I have to be honest - my first thought as well was that it may just be down to the quality of Google's results.

However, since Google censorship isnt without precendent (CHINA); its quite difficult to find out one way or the other. Quite possibly a combination of both.

 

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