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It’s that time again. Nine months after we were poised at the brink of the launch of Apple Pay, we are now all agog for the latest mobile payment method to step into the arena – Android Pay. This come...
The year is off to a dynamic start in the cross-border payments industry, leading many to ask: What’s ahead for the next 9 months? Innovations are being shaped by the exponential adoption of the Inter...
My grandmother likes to stay informed and recently told me: << I read on the magazine a few days ago about something called “blockchain”. Everybody seems to have fallen in love with it so it mus...
What can the Bank of England learn from SWIFT? Last month I was invited at the Bank of England to consult members of the RTGS Review committee on their efforts to rethink and redesign the Bank’s sett...
NFC mobile payments continue to grab headlines, but to really drive uptake and ensure full market coverage, combining contactless cards with next-gen mobile banking apps is surely the right way to go ...
Everyone likes a good selfie, from Hollywood celebrities to the general public! Selfies have become an everyday part of our lives. The selfie is still a relatively new word yet everyone knows what i...
"Are you sure you want to do this" Richa asked. I must confess I was not, but decided to go for it and thus started this journey from Mumbai to Singapore and back without single penny cash. ...
Mastercard’s planned acquisition of Vocalink has the potential to create a new payments powerhouse in Europe and beyond. The news of the planned acquisition broke a few days after the Payment Systems ...
In January I wrote that the PSR was one of the things to watch in this year, and I’ve been surprised by the amount of pace they have made in such a short time through their excellent forum. There has ...
RBI (Reserve Bank of India) formally introduced the Financial Inclusion policy during 2005-06 with the main objective of connecting underbanked/unbanked people with the banking system. Approximately, ...
The timing could not have been better. FATF just published – February 2016, a report that all Compliance Officers of this industry must read, entitled Guidance for a Risk-Based Approach for Money or V...
I think it is very important that every person in the International Money Transfer & Payments (IMT&Ps) industry reads the GAO Report published on February 16th, 2016, entitled INTERNATIONAL RE...