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As the SEC proposes a new trading system that requires individuals or firms to register and receive a trader identification number if they plan to trade more than $20 million or 2 million shares per ...
What’s it going to take to get contactless payments off the ground? Contactless card payments have been proving more of a slow burner than a big bang, and the introduction of mobile phones with embedd...
My excuse for my recent blogging hiatus is that I was kicking off a project (or three) with a new client - a securities firm in Vancouver. Rather than spend time expelling ideas, it was time for me to...
Studies show that online banking customers are more satisfied and purchase more products vis-à-vis others. This underscores the importance of online channels in the delivery of customer experience. Th...
It is axiomatic that banks have traditionally had problems in measuring their payments business and the value it brings to their bottom line. Are payments just a means to securing a corporate’s DDA or...
Brilliant initiative from Nationwide, to restrict peoples' in-branch access to their own cash. It ignores those who don't want to draw £100 or more out and don't trust cash machines (like many elderl...
The Payments Council announced late last year cheques are to disappear in the UK by 2018. To most people this might feel like a case of, so what? Particularly for corporates, where the use of cheques ...
Is betting on the Hollywood really any riskier than betting on credit default swaps? Think about it. Imagine you are traveling back in time and the director of Braindead and The Frighteners came t...
When Dickens' great work, "A Christmas Carol", was first published in December 1843, the only way any business could keep its finances under control was through painstaking, laborious, manua...
Quite a lot has been written over recent weeks about the London Stock Exchange’s market share and last week helped to clarify some of the issues. Prior to this period the LSE had enjoyed a temporary...
"PayPal iPhone app downloaded one million times in three weeks"!!! (see article here) I love technology and I'm convinced that over time new Value Transfer Systems will become more and mor
As iPad was released, a lots of developers already started up their engines to create thousands or even millions of different apps, so the financial ones will be there too. The good thing about the i...