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Two widely-accepted facts: valuation processes sit in the front office, reporting sits in the back. But what's in the middle? Often, it's been a chasm where the basic details on how/when/why an asset ...
China has shown what can be done when you are determined in many fields - from infra to business to high tech. In EU we need much more levers to get the obvious things happening. Cash is costing merch...
A recent Unisys study found that, in the midst of the global financial crisis, American's primary fear is credit and debit card fraud. 68% of those surveyed are extremely or very concerned about the ...
About six weeks ago, I wrote about the looming battle between old and new web browsers. The topic seems to have attracted a lot of attention. So here's a brief update from the front line. A global in...
Payments are increasingly being viewed as the staple diet for many banks, as financial institutions turn their backs on years of developing exotic products and go back to basics. Yet, a number of obst...
Typical e-invoicing transaction trend in Finland: http://boharald.blogspot.com/2009/09/e-invoicing-transactions-taking-off.html The shape of this curve reminds me of the development of e-banking trans...
The recent launch of ‘O2 Money’ has brought prepaid solutions back into the limelight. However, it is important to note that prepaid can help to solve crucial business challenges as well as consumer i...
Let’s face it financial messaging has never been the most exciting part of banking. Originating in the wire room, it took over from telex and the message boys. But things are changing – quickly. You w...
Another area where public-private partnership at some point may have had challenges is e-invoicing. Some have seen a danger that the PEPPOL-pilot for public sector procurement in EU will lead to the p...
We are seeing a growing realization that there is no public sector - or private sector for that part - from a citizens point of view - only services produced somewhere (even if they are subject to po...
This week Oracle announced the release of a cross-channel fraud management capability for bank's that draws on the database company's intregrated real-time capabilities. This is a step in the strategi...
The feds are getting better at busting criminals every day. Seventeen criminals, many from Eastern Europe, pilfered more than 95,000 stolen credit card numbers and $4 million worth of fraudulent tran