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ESMA has released a Consultation Paper on the draft technical standards for trade repositories, OTC clearing and CCPs. Discussion of non-financial counterparty exclusions begins on page 14. OTC contra...
Two days after the original article on "Amazon vs PayPal" was published and tweeted by several people, one of the Amazon Payments' top execs joined Finextra. Talk about coincidence... These...
Legal requirements for invoicing are constantly changing in Argentina. While they are mandatory for some industries, others are still receiving future timelines from the Argentinean tax authority Admi...
Interest only mortgages – the root of mortgage evil or a valid option for homebuyers? In recent months lenders have reacted pre-emptively to the proposed MMR interest only rules and restrictions by ei...
What should RBS do first to clear up the mess left behind from the computer failure? Managing Customer Relationships Now I might be looking at this over critically through the eyes of a person who de
In Part I of my Taking the Pain Out of Collection Claim Processing series, I described the importance of maximizing recoveries. In Part II I describe how you can use collection agencies as a strate...
Following a tentative start with Google first launching its mobile wallet offering last year and then O2 in recent months, the war of the mobile wallets has finally begun in earnest. Last week Microso...
Prior to attending the BB10 Jam conference in London on 14th June, I had started to think that perhaps there was scope for RIM to re-establish themselves as the number one mobile platform choice for t...
On-line services are critical to the brand experience and to fees and profits. So why are they increasingly failing? Because IT and customer workflows are increasingly complex. Virtual compute infr...
Amazon and PayPal have never been friends. Their "mild animosity" goes back to 2003 when Amazon launched services aimed at (small) e-merchants, thus muscling in on the eBay's territory. In A...
I recently had a discussion as to which market represents the biggest business potential for iZettle (I said - the US). If one looked at the current EMV terminal adoptions rates worldwide, it is cle...
I was joking, of course, but I bet many of you were not surprised - hardly a week goes by without some "m-wallet" announcement here or there. How many more m-wallets need to be launched befo...