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An estimated EUR 177 billion in VAT revenues was lost due to non-compliance or non-collection in 2012, a recent report reveals. E-invoicing to help reduce EU VAT Gap losses - report thepaypers.com Ac...
Apple Pay is here and banks can finally enable NFC mobile payments for their iPhone carrying customers. However, the Apple smart phone user base, while considerable, is only part of the entire custome...
Fixed income, commodity and currency (FICC) markets are dominated by the big boys, the professional traders and investors. In this proverbial ‘champions league’ of markets, retailers are restricted to...
Just when you thought you had the evolution of banking channels figured out I am here to explain the flaw in the latest evolution of banking channels; omni-channel banking. The progression of banking...
Cyber storage does not always = secure backup. Users of cloud storage have many potential tools at hand to beef up security. And just because cloud services have some loopholes doesn’t mean you should...
The FCA’s proposal to ban funding research from commission payments is a groundbreaking step, marking the first action of its kind seen in over 200 years. The consultation period following the publica...
Earlier this month Mark Boleat, head of policy for the City of London, gave a serious warning to the financial services industry as he prepared to address the Institute of International Finance in Was...
By now, most participants in the US payments industry are finally about to realize that the day of the mag stripe is doomed and that EMV, the secure payment card technology rolled out in Europe nearly...
AML. Dodd-Frank. OTC Derivatives reform. The Volcker rule. Basel IV. FATCA. GATCA. The list goes on but the introduction of new local and global regulations shows no signs of abating. Against this bac...
Fund information for investors is a bit of a mess. For more than a decade the investment community relied on the printed fund factsheet – two glorious pages of investment enlightenment for the end inv...
"It's a sensitive space, people still associate it with criminality and dubious activities - like the internet in the early days" When Finextra wrote a story about Epiphyte winning the Innot...
Earlier this year we sponsored a piece of research by Finextra into the challenges and issues facing fintech marketers. One of my favourite insights is that fintech marketers fear their dependency up...