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Craig Ramsey

Streamlining systems: meet consumer demand to be competitive

With bank switching now easier than ever before, we’re at a point where maintaining a high level of customer satisfaction is going to be crucial to a bank’s success. Customers don’t just want the best...

30 Sep 2013
Craig Ramsey

Why travel to Sibos? Just look out of the window

The enormity of global trade is on display this year in Osaka, and it is more evident than ever that payments and trade finance are critical banking services supporting global economic growth. Each da...

31 Oct 2012
Finextra@Sibos
Craig Ramsey

The return of the payments hub

After years of a lack of clear agreement from the financial sector, the payments hub is finally getting some focus, as companies seek significant gains in financial efficiency. No longer referred to a...

30 Oct 2012
Finextra@Sibos
Craig Ramsey

At last, a SIBOS where conversation around SEPA is welcome

After years of speculation, this week in Osaka we finally appear to have a SIBOS with a SEPA conversation worth having. With the date for compliance across the Eurozone now set for February 2014, we a...

29 Oct 2012
Finextra@Sibos
Craig Ramsey

Banks and vendors need to work together to succeed

Banks are under constant pressure to meet their customer expectations and reacting piecemeal to customer requests buys little time. Banks need to invest in their business so they can anticipate custom...

16 May 2012
Craig Ramsey

Transaction banking enters the era of customer experience

Customer experience is fast becoming the real differentiator in transaction banking. It is no longer enough to offer a simple, automated payment processing. To build loyalty and drive profitability ba...

15 May 2012
Craig Ramsey

2012 is shaping up to be the year of payments transformation

2012 is shaping up nicely to become remembered as the year when banks started reviewing their cash management and payment platforms to gain the upper hand in customer engagement and brand loyalty. Dur...

14 May 2012
Craig Ramsey

The customer is always right

It’s a fact that when it comes to banking and payments, customers have high expectations of reliability, efficiency and dependability. This has not changed over the decades. What makes it more challen...

21 Sep 2011
Finextra@Sibos
Craig Ramsey

Hubs. Time to make them work

Payments hubs have been a talking point for a number of years now. Once envisioned as the 'silver bullet' for payment system consolidation, the reality has become somewhat different. I've talked to ...

20 Sep 2011
Finextra@Sibos
Craig Ramsey

Final countdown to Sibos

It’s hard to believe that Sibos is upon us again. It doesn’t seem like almost a year since we were all in Amsterdam. (Although they do say that times goes faster as you get older, so maybe that’s to b...

15 Sep 2011
Finextra@Sibos
Craig Ramsey

Knowledge-based innovation

All banks benefit from improvements to the payment market’s efficiency. This is where experienced software professionals can help the payments community achieve more in less time, particularly in comp...

20 Jun 2011
EBAday
Craig Ramsey

Innovating to compete

The need to develop new customer propositions has become more important recently because of the new market entrants that many claim are eroding the traditional bank’s business in the payments space. I...

17 Jun 2011
EBAday

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