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I am not impressed by iZettle. Please hear me out. The concept of contact based card reader devices is nothing new. We see it all day. It so ubiquitous, that we don’t notice it at all; Let alone recog...
It’s become popular with politicians in times of great market crisis and extreme volatility to stop short selling. This naturally is never supported in the market as it undermines liquidity and opport...
To say that it has been a turbulent time in global equities markets is something of an understatement, but the European picture provides some interesting pointers to the bigger geopolitical debate tha...
European data privacy laws are arguably the most stringent in the world. That should be great news for companies that meet them when those companies come to offer their services around the world. An
The CEN E-invoicing III Workshop released its 3 draft CWAs. They are open for a 60 days period of public review until 9 October 2011. It is beautiful to see how these CWA's interlock with each other, ...
“If you line up the 30 billion checks issued by the top check writing countries in the world each year, you’d have a paper trail all the way to the moon and back.” The video, Global Mobile Finance c...
Does your bank provide SMS alerts for debit card transactions? If it does, do you use the service? According to an article in the Times of India, with effect from July 2011, the Reserve Bank of India...
The news that Google has acquired Motorola will add fresh fuel to the smartphone fire that rages between Apple, Google and Microsoft. The move underpins the search giant’s ambitions to be a ‘mobile-fi...
There's been a great deal of discussion lately about the impact of technology on traditional businesses such as bookstores, media, TV, newspapers and even on banking. We think we understand the impact...
or banks excel in being opaque I have been a long standing customer of a big...
The emphasis is shifting from finding the system that precisely matches requirements to delivery capability - finding a core system that can be implemented with the minimum of trauma. Experienced core...
With the ongoing growth of virtual currencies, cashless payments and online shopping (albeit slowly), cash machines could very well find themselves obsolete. In addition to looking forward to bank ho...