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Just when you thought the world of Bitcoin might be sobering up for January like the rest of us, comes the news that rapper Kanje West is being celebrated with his own Bitcoin issue - to be known as C...
Disclaimer: the views expressed are purely mine and does not endorse my firm’s views or any individual at my firm. Let me start by asking you a question: What is common between General Motors, Daimler...
The recent Payment Survey conducted by gtnews discusses the number of banking partners that corporates deploy. On an average in North America, the number of banking relationships range from 1 to 4 whi...
Partner Finance as a concept is the fall out of risk control measures set within banks that cap the exposures that the banks can take towards a borrowing entity. This is conceptually similar to consor...
Corporate Payments are characterized by large value and time sensitivity unlike retail payments that are low value and non urgent. The large value of corporate payments makes it mandatory to ensure th...
Challenges around STP in Payments Straight Through Processing (STP) has gained prominence in the world of electronic payments, with banks the world over, closely analyzing their payment processes to e...
Yesterday 1st January I logged in to Barclays Internet Banking as usual, to make a payment to a new Payee. When I progressed to submit the payment, I got an error message no.6 "we have technical ...
The old saying “Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time” crossed my mind when I recently read this article in which loan defaulters protest against the aggressive procedures adopted by banks to r...
As we begin the new year, what better time to reflect on the developments in banking in 2013 and what we can expect to see this coming year... More mobility in banking Anywhere, anytime banking was a ...
Catching up on online reading after some self imposed offline holiday time I was just reading about the latest US retailer to be plundered for customer personal and card data. For those who also misse...