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I've been reading a lot about “which way” people think the digital wallet is going to go. I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 with EE. My wallet has NFC through cash on tap. I can order ahead and pay on the ...
With the Google Wallet announcements moving the emphasis away from NFC and thereby expanding the potential user base for its service, is this the KISS of life for wallets and the kiss of death for NFC...
If unhappy customers are indeed the greatest source of learning, then the banking sector is sitting on a gold mine. Since 2011, the proportion of customers planning to switch banks has risen from 7% t...
The Standards Forum celebrated its 10th birthday in style including a rousing rendition of “Happy Birthday” led by Andrew Muir, who looked like he was enjoying just a bit too much! The Standards team...
Welcome to hump day. Day 3 of Sibos and we are closer to the end than we are to the beginning. I’m running on fumes now, waiting for my second wind to kick in. Another packed agenda on the Standards...
SWIFT is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the standards forum at Sibos in grand style with, amongst other things, a cake. The idea of bringingn practitioners, vendors and standards developers toge...
Big data An interesting clash appeared during the earliest conference sessions at Sibos: the standing-room-only Innotribe kickoff was scheduled against a session on Big Data. I can only think that Big...
The Reserve Bank of Australia, Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, and Australian Securities and Investments Commission (the regulators) have released a Report on the Australian OTC Derivative...
The FATCA web page have been redesigned and updated. Additions include: a new landing page for US financial institutions that addresses their FATCA responsibilities; and information for governm
The new term (one that thankfully cannot be made into an acronym) hitting the psyche of operations professionals is ‘backshoring’. The term is surprisingly self-explanatory and refers to the process o...
Of all the global sporting contests, few parallel investment banking as well as the America’s Cup regatta. The latest round of the world’s oldest sporting competition kicks off in San Francisco this m...
2011 was meant to be "the year of NFC". So was 2012. And 2013. However, earlier this year NFC ran out of steam as far as "mind share" is concerned. When Google Wallet decided to dr...