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For a number of years now, we have seen a reduction in the use of cheque and as such, the Payments Council decided on the closure for cheque clearing by 2018. In our experience, large UK corporates ar...
Five years ago, law enforcement forces were pretty clueless about Cybercrime and online banking fraud. National intelligence bureaus and police departments worldwide experienced a flood of unknown com...
September is National Campus Safety Awareness Month. I helped Uni-Ball conduct a survey of 1,000 college students and 1,000 parents. The survey revealed that while about 74% of parents believe studen...
Living in the Chicago area, I've spent my fair share of time in traffic congestion trying to get to the airport. (Anyone familiar with Chicago ORD will also know that finding a plane that leaves on t...
Despite uncertainty around Basel III – specifically whether banks will have enough capital, and issues regarding their risk and exposure, the legislation doesn’t seem to be as onerous for banks as onc...
If you're a business that regularly uses casual staff in order fulfil commitments to customers and keep running costs down, then you may wish to consider revising your business strategy! Why? Because
How did we do it? The existence of contactless technology in the payments market has been a topic of much discussion and over the last two years we have seen significant progress globally, with many m...
The presenters and panellists on day three of EFMA will surely have felt the pressure to deliver after the fantastic first two days of the conference, and I must say that the sessions I attended lived...
In Wall Street Journal paper Sept.10, a chief economist of Citi London Mr. Willem Buiter had written interesting article titled: Is this the Right Time for the Fed to go Negative? It is not a bad
Two things popped up at me on Twitter today. One a blog with comments by Alex Payne criticising Twitter, again (you work for banksimple now!) and another bit of street graffiti adorning London's new c...
Well the confidence and optimism from Wednesday was still evident at the end of yesterday. Last year people had ideas, this year they are actually doing something about them and actively looking for
No restructuring is pain free, especially in the complex business of financial services. And in the aftermath of the crisis, the industry has undergone widespread re-jigging through consolidation, mer...