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A Finextra Member

Definition of Global Recession!

Global recession is an era, in the lifetime; when expatriates revert to their hometown to revamp their citizenship.

15 Jul 2009
EBAday
Matt White

Banking with the enemy

Interesting, if not entirely surprising, snippet from the strategic innovations in payments systems panel discussion here at EBAday. Lee Fulmer, currently with IBM, revealed that in his previous life ...

01 Jul 2009
EBAday
Matt White

When digital natives rule the world

How banks are going to have to adapt their services to keep digital natives - people who have grown up with the Internet and mobile phones - happy was up for discussion at the strategic innovation in ...

01 Jul 2009
EBAday
Matt White

How to make Sepa 'prettier' for corporates

So, Sepa is obviously a big deal for the banking delegates here at EBAday but the corporates in attendance are a little less enthusiastic. Andreas Nestler, head of cash and treasury management at Aust...

30 Jun 2009
EBAday
Paul Penrose

Time to scrap cash?

With the spectre of negative interest rates hoving into view, is it time to rethink the value of cash as a medium of exchange? Failure to do so will lead inevitably to currency hoarding as savers turn...

20 May 2009
EBAday
Elton Cane

Innovation in wholesale payments, beyond e-invoicing

I'm expecting that again this year there will be a lot of talk about e-invoicing at EBAday in Vienna, particularly as the expert group and EPC are working to break down the remaining barriers to wides...

20 Apr 2009
EBAday
Paul Penrose

The PayPal Rally

PayPal in Germany recently conducted an interesting experiment to see how far you can get in the offline world using just an iPhone and a PayPal account. The firm equipped two competing teams on a tri...

20 Feb 2009
EBAday
A Finextra Member

EU Payment Services Directive

The UK Government is putting before Parliament regulations that will lead to legislation due to be enforced on the 2nd March 2009. This should breathe life into the PSD after a particularly difficult ...

12 Feb 2009
EBAday
A Finextra Member

Tesco's beginning to look bank like

I have written on the topic of high street stores entering banking before but it's now looking certain that Tesco will be the first to go the whole hog. The Chief Executive Sir Terry Leahy appears to ...

28 Jan 2009
EBAday
A Finextra Member

Breaking up the Banks

Each day we hear of another bank deep in a hole of its own making. The billions and eventually trillions of tax payer's money pitched into banks is taking some time to take effect and get the busines...

21 Jan 2009
EBAday

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