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Exclusive interview of the co-founder of Currency Fair

I m proud to post the 1st part of the interview that Brett Meyers has accepted to give me. Brett Meyers is the co-founder of Currency Fair (2nd company to get the license as a Payment Institution i

10 Jun 2010
Innovation in Financial Services
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Data Integrity in the Lending Process

One of the primary inefficiencies that most hinders the lending process is a lack of Straight-Through Processing. Let’s begin with loan origination by way of example. When considering a credit, inform...

10 Jun 2010
Data Management 101
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CFO Magazine Survey Results on the ROI for Consultants

CFO Magazine implies that only 29% of executives are fully confident that their consultants produce an acceptable return on investment. This is a pretty low figure, particularly for U.S. financial se...

09 Jun 2010
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TRANSPOSITION OF THE PSD : STATE OF PLAY

According to the European Commission, at the end of March 2010, 16 Member States have transposed the Directive and 7 other member States have transposed it partially. Infringement proceedings were la

08 Jun 2010
Innovation in Financial Services
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MT, IAT and 20022

Recently Tower Group published research report on Payments developments, emphasizing the traction towards global payments standards (see Payments Rail). Now that IAT (International ACH transactions

07 Jun 2010
Innovation in Financial Services
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Is there a Silver Bullet for Mobile Payments security?

Engineers tend to frown at marketing and BD, but creating leads or closing a deal is never easy. No matter where you are you want to be able to clearly articulate what is the customer’s pain point th

07 Jun 2010
Innovation in Financial Services
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SEPA and white elephants

If one was to take a spectator’s view of SEPA progress to date, one could be excused if the image of a white elephant flashed before one’s eyes . . . . . We had a memorable white elephant in the UK no...

07 Jun 2010
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A Crisis Needs a Utility?

I heard Francis Gross of the ECB speak at one of the panel events at the XTrakter Conference last week, and found that I couldn't avoid asking him whether the aims of the "Data Utility" ini...

04 Jun 2010
Data Management 101
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The Glittering Prize

Just as we were looking forward to World Cup fever beginning to assert its grip at Fidessa Towers, BATS Europe has reminded everyone that there are other prizes at stake this summer as it unveiled th...

03 Jun 2010
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Bank e-invoicing business case lies in the bigger picture

E-invoicing has been a firm fixture on the banking conference agenda for at least the last five years and the recent EBA Day was no exception. Banks have been rather territorial over e-invoicing, whic...

03 Jun 2010
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Hyperinflation: An Upcoming Black Swan in Payments?

With no inflation in sight, why am I writing about hyperinflation? Remember, in October 2008, the deer in the headlights look on the faces of economics experts? Nobody in charge knew what was going on...

02 Jun 2010
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E-Invoicing Barriers

First day of EBA Day in Luxemburg, e-invoicing had been coined to the audiences. The event held on right after the release of EBA and Innopay’s E-invoicing 2010 European Market Guide report. The first...

02 Jun 2010
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