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With close to 80% of African families still without access to a conventional banking system, there is much work to be done to get basic financial services into the hands of the 1.1bn people that inhab...
Major progress was made in 2014 on the common understanding of the strategic importance of alternative payments for the European banking sector, against the background of transforming private and publ...
Not many policy pundits expected India's Central Bank, known for its cautious stance in issuing Banking licenses, to propagate differentiated banking licenses itself. Payments and Small Banks reflect ...
The need for establishing a real-time payment infrastructure is firmly on the agenda in North America right now. The US Federal Reserve announced back in September that it was preparing to publish a r...
Twenty-five years ago, the fall of the Berlin Wall saw the creation of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Its mission was to find capital to help re-build national infrastructures m...
Banks and merchants are under threat to lose millions of dollars in investment in their apps by allowing them to become obsolete because they don’t provide the most desired functionality of all: Payme...
The benefits associated with the implementation of a payments factory have been achievable for some time now, with new, additional benefits and indeed challenges, being realized as payments processing...
The emergence of a host of new players in the UK retail banking market is giving the traditional powerhouses food for thought. According to the Office of Fair Trading, the big four banks - HSBC, Royal...
Anyone who spent the last fortnight at these two events will have been struck by the growing divide in the fintech industry: between old and new, physical and digital, Wall Street and Silicon Valley. ...
I’ve written a few times on this blog about disparate payments processes within large corporations and then the benefits associated with centralising and standardising that process. One of the clear ...
The news of a PCI breach is just the start of a host of issues – all of which can be crippling to a business. Many CIOs and compliance officers may complain about the burden that the Payments Card Cou...
“We hope to change the way content can be consumed – there is quality content on the web and we believe in it. It needs to be financed – and people must be willing to finance it.” Whether you like it ...