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The European Commission recently launched an update report on the state of the Capital Markets Union (CMU) project. A comprehensive program of actions set out a year ago to put in place the building ...
This document is intended towards Banks, Financial Regulatory Authority and the Information technology organizations, who are working towards the innovative solution providing for the financial ecosys...
The Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS), along with numerous banks, have launched mCash as an alternative payment system in the populous country in Africa. mCash rides on USSD and anyone can ...
Enough with the talk of the branch of the future. The branch of the future is something I’ve been hearing about since I entered the banking industry in 1986. Guess what? Nothing has really changed tha...
The road to semantic discovery within the G-SIB's and prospective D-SIB's seems to be yielding little in the way of reward. More often than not, only a handful of business terms have been found and th...
The October anniversary of the liability shift has passed, and anniversaries are an excellent time to look back on progress…this is no exception. The U.S. EMV migration plan was set four years ago as...
Are you the last Mohican? The last one still sending our accepting paper or PDF invoices? In your private and/or corporate role? The last one using cash in a shop? The last one writing or accepting c...
Blockchain is never far from our thoughts it seems, with the recent flurry of articles now focusing more on the ‘when’ rather than the ‘what’. Opinion appears to be polarised, with some commentators...
A staggering 109.3 million payments were processed in just one day in late September by Bacs Payment Schemes Limited (Bacs), the organisation behind Direct Debit and Bacs Direct Credit in the UK. Th...
Posted this in 2008 - edited now Had a discussion last week with a representative of a consumer organization at a conference in Brussels. It did strike me - again - how little interest these organizat...
The CFTC announced on October 31st, 2016 that they issued Orders of Registration to the following Foreign Boards of Trade (FBOT): Eurex CME Europe Limited ICE Futures Europe The London Metal Exch...
My experience from being a part of payments, e-banking, mobile, e-id etc development work has been that one should start with services that "all people" (Ms Same Guy in her private, entrepre...