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A Finextra Member

Paying for candles in the dark

A couple of years ago, here at FIS Europe, business growth meant that we needed to move our mid-range data centre. We looked at outsourcing, in-house builds and even taking on a former telephone exch...

10 Oct 2011
Dirk Kinvig

Download the Finextra Android App

Here at Finextra, we've been keeping the web elves busy and we are now pleased to announce that we now have an app for Android devices. The app will help you keep abreast of the latest financial and ...

10 Oct 2011
Finextra site news
Pat Carroll

What's really mind-boggling about the NY card-skimming fraud

News that 111 people were arrested last week in New York in a US$13 million card fraud scam was a useful reminder of just how easy it still is to skim credit card details in the US. NYPD Commissioner ...

10 Oct 2011
Innovation in Financial Services
Enrico Camerinelli

TiMS: From concept to reality

After testing the concept with corporate treasurers and through direct conversations with banks and software vendors at SIBOS earlier in September I am confident to anticipate that Treasury informatio...

10 Oct 2011
Treasury Management
A Finextra Member

Scarce credit throws e-invoicing in the spotlight

The limited availability of credit following the financial crisis coupled with the potential consequences of Basel III has resulted in a crunch on lending to corporates. Banks and corporates have beco...

10 Oct 2011
Bo Harald

Everybody should have the right to a bank account

The right - and the obligation to open one (fees are normally not high). No salary should be paid in cash - and social benefits only to accounts. How much could be saved - and how much crime avoided. ...

09 Oct 2011
Transaction Banking
Bo Harald

What we would do differently today

If launching e-Invoicing today: 1. The SME-sector’s organizations were not involved strongly enough in the beginning. They should have been co-owners of the productivity issue with e-invoicing and th...

08 Oct 2011
Innovation in Financial Services
Pat Carroll

Katie Price's plight highlights fraud dangers

The credit card industry has certainly been in the news this week. First David Cameron nearly suggested that British consumers should pay down their credit cards – before his speech was hastily rewrit...

07 Oct 2011
Innovation in Financial Services
A Finextra Member

Mobile banking hotting up...

News that Lloyds TSB has unveiled a newly enhanced mobile banking service, while Citibank has re-launched its online banking site, demonstrates the increased focus on mobile financial services and onl...

07 Oct 2011
Online Banking
Andre Malinowski

How to choose and use your payment services 4

This short blog is the last one out of a series of four, addressing steps a merchant organization should take to choose & use their payment service provider. Conversion rates don’t lie Define som...

07 Oct 2011
A Finextra Member

Risks at UBS: Is it a honour story?

It's a fact that risk systems are only as good as the people that monitor them. This has to be a board level down responsibility and it's good that UBS has received the resignations of two top manager...

07 Oct 2011
Post-Trade Forum
Darren Negraeff

The role of specialized product bundling in banking

The commoditisation of traditional banking products through new technologies, as I’ve been reading about in Joseph DiVanna’s excellent Redefining Financial Services, has pushed banks to redefine their...

06 Oct 2011
Innovation in Financial Services

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