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Fearless imagination. This is how Fortune magazine recently described the #1 needed competency of all business leaders. And this is exactly what bank executives need to transform their payment sy
Cross border e-commerce is growing at more than double the rate of domestic e-commerce and the size of the market is poised to grow to over $300 billion in 2018 across the US, UK, Germany, Brazil, Chi...
From the days of the first draft of MiFID I, as "principles-based" regulation, market participants started to use the term "the devil is in the detail". Nothing is a truer example...
Private investment is moving online While alternative finance started off as a seed stage endeavour, more recently platforms have begun to emerge at different stages in the funding cycle, disrupting t...
Our national cashless payment infrastructure is the most important entity in our economy for the convenience and security of all credit and debit card holders, as well as all retailers. All other cons...
I watched a TV programme a couple of nights ago on how US special forces operated to combat terrorist operations in Iraq. They put all their intelligence agencies in a hangar in the operations zone, ...
The draft technical standards for MiFID II require exchanges to publish quarterly execution quality reports (RTS 6). Sell-side firms are expected to digest these and update their best execution polic...
2015 has been the breakthrough year for consumer mobile payments at physical stores. Beyond the current hype, there is still plenty of debate about whether mobile proximity payment will be successful ...
Many people are confused by the resurgence of personal financial management tools, after hearing for years that digital money management (DMM) isn’t working and that customers simply do not want it. ...
A quick review of who has launched widely commercially available open-loop proximity payment (NFC) solutions for the UK market. Firstly there is Everything Everywhere (EE) – they launched Cash on Tap ...
“Reimagining, redesigning and rethinking the branches of the future” is a hot topic for banks. In order to stay ahead in the race, Banks have been experimenting with creating concept branches, adding ...
“Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.” Sun Tzu, Chinese general and military strategist, uttered these famous words around 400 B.C. Today, this quote could be used to describe perspec