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The demands of today’s shopper can make a retailer’s head spin. They love shopping online, but are more likely to buy in-store, they hate queuing but won’t do anything about it. They see shopping a...
Earlier this year my bike was stolen from my apartment block in London. Sadly I was not the only victim as a number of my neighbours also had their bikes stolen from the bike rack inside the gated bas...
It is staggering to write this down, but contactless in the UK is nearly ten! And it’s exciting that ‘tap and go’ payments are going from strength to strength. Since the introduction of contactless ca...
The rise of big data, computing power, and advanced analytics enables companies to gain valuable insights from data. Artificial intelligence, machine learning, the Internet of Things, and drones are j...
Theresa May has been re-elected but she has lost her parliamentary majority. Even with a ‘confidence and supply’ agreement with the pro-remain Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), political risk in UK is ...
With information security rapidly gaining prominence over the last few years legislators have jumped into action to improve safeguards and public confidence in IT systems. While information security c...
With the advancement of technology, the world is moving towards the cashless economy system. The internet has facilitated people with e-banking facilities. The recent statistics reveal the fact that t...
Banks and other financial trading firms are under constant pressure to improve their bottom lines. The pressure often is felt most acutely in terms of a focus on operational efficiencies, which only s...
Throughout the year, there has been plenty of discussion around frictionless payments, and reducing complexity for both consumers and for merchants. So, are card payments getting simpler, or more comp...
The financial services industry is no stranger to exorbitant changes in the sector, with the last few years in particular being game changing for both businesses and consumers. What’s more, as we know...
Real Time Payments is 'in', it's cool, everyone's doing it, it's the awesome thing that will solve all our payments problems. Wait! What? Really? But which problems? Cast your mind back. It's 2004. 4 ...
MiFID II seemed so far away when it was pushed back until January 3rd 2018!! This has been a long time coming, and despite the looming deadline, firms are still trying to work out what they need to d...