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The European financial services industry should be pleased that the European Parliament finally passed the Consumer Lending Directive earlier this year, after more than six years of mulling, negotiati...
Every professional with the vision of mobilizing money has been focused on mobile financial services for years. It abvious that plastic cards and mobile handsets are going to converge by the deliver o...
One hopes that vetting procedures for accessing Swift's secure SwiftNet network are much stricter than those for its online community forums at swiftcommunity.net. It seems that a Nigerian 419 fraudst...
I have a few ideas about identity management. The mobile money laundering article begins with a premise about Brittany a 'personal entertainer' (my description), who uses electronic payments to coll...
A New Zealand woman has come up with a novel low-cost solution to shoulder-surfing at ATMs. Beach Haven-based Sharon Stamper is the brains behind the yellow lines that are now a standard fixture in al...
The election of President Obama is a wonderful and historical event for the USA but also the world. The American dream is more real today than ever before. A Black President in the White House is a he...
The other day I received a statement from a financial services company with whom I have a small amount of business. Nothing unusual in that, other than the accompanying leaflet that set out a new pro...
I welcome confirmation of our own conclusions that customers want to use their mobile similarly to ATM usage patterns - primarily for balances. The transaction part they'll have to do without for the ...
What is likely to happen at the November 15th G20 meeting and why? Although it was not Nicolas Sarkozy but a group of 11 Commonwealth countries who floated the idea in June 2008, the French President ...
Is there anyone out there in either the real or cyber world that is in the least surprised by this article? For me the only surprise is that it's taken the fraudsters so long to latch onto Facebook. E...
A curious story here from the wackier, more inept and heavy-handed end of the ATM crime universe. Three men in Berlin have been arrested on suspicion of blowing up several cash machines during the yea...
One topic debated at Cartes last week and one which I've heard increasingly raised in recent months is the globalisation of EMV. As EMV is introduced into more regions, individual countries are attemp...