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Fintech startups: A week in review

Y Combinator puts out an RFS (request for startups) Y Combinator, the big fish in the accelerator pond, has put out a request in the form of a blog post. They want to ignite the spark in entrepreneurs...

17 Sep 2014
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Why we should take our hats off to Apple

With last week’s news of the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch debuting with mobile wallet capabilities, there is no doubt that Apple has given the (mobile) payments industry a shot in the arm. But in what dir...

17 Sep 2014
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Challenging Times for Independent ATM Deployers

After attending the ATM & Mobile Innovation Summit held last week in Washington D.C., the future of alternative payment methods continues to be filled with many options. While it is interesting to...

17 Sep 2014
David Gibbard

The Digital Divide Banking Opportunity and Failure

I was reading an article today in Credit Union Management written by Lisa Hochgraf, subtitled, Seven steps to success with your largest 'branch'. The article does a good job identifying a problem all...

17 Sep 2014
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Swiss Gold Opportunity

One of the very few remaining proper democracies in the world will vote on bringing the Swiss Gold back to Switzerland on November 30. In order to have a national referendum on an issue in Switzerland...

17 Sep 2014
David Gibbard

Digital Banking ... The New Checking Account?

Back in the old days credit unions and banks aggressively marketed to get your checkingaccount. The reason, banks and credit unions determined that the financial institution that held your checking a...

16 Sep 2014
David Bomser

Know, Wow, and Empower Customers

Making Customer Insight Analytics Actionable Like most large commercial banks, I’m sure that my bank views my checking account for exactly what it is on its balance sheet, a liability. To be fair, I t...

16 Sep 2014
Innovation in Financial Services
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Crowdfunding to the moon: InvestUP

“Back in the 1960s when they were landing on the moon, everyone came together, it wasn’t the U.S. landing on the moon, it was mankind” says James Tuckett, founder and MD of investUP (or just UP), the ...

16 Sep 2014
Future Finance
Robert Siciliano

Identity proofing proves who You are

Identity proofing is proof of whom you are. Proving one’s identity starts with that person answering questions that only they themselves can answer (even if the answers are fictitious), such as their ...

16 Sep 2014
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Biometric security: giving cyber criminals the finger

Last week, Barclays committed to a progressive future in banking security with the launch of the Barclays Biometric Reader. The scanner, developed by Hitachi, can be plugged into a computer’s USB por...

16 Sep 2014
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Faster Payments takes off for small business

Latest figures from the Payments Council show a dramatic rise in the use of Faster Payments, with volumes of spontaneous customer-initiated payments (knows as ‘Single Immediate Payments’) rocketing by...

16 Sep 2014
Anne Plested

El manana is here

Last week I was in the beautiful city of Madrid, where besides analysing the impact of upcoming MiFID II regulation, I’ve been catching up on the Spanish Market Reforms. The upcoming changes, aka La R...

16 Sep 2014

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