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PaymentsNews reported yesterday on a Mercator report titled,"Merchant Acquiring in the United States 2008: Birth of the perfect storm". Pressure on merchant acquirers has always been stron...
Italian securities depository Monte Titoli has hit back at implications that it is being difficult and hindering new upstarts that are trying to enter the Italian market. Turquoise CEO Edi Lederman sa...
I can't decide if this is funny or just downright rude. Or weird. Or all of the above. The EU have delayed a vote on protecting forests from illegal logging and Greenpeace are trying to make sure it d...
It appears that computer science graduates are facing higher unemployment rates than their fellow graduates in other subjects, with one in ten still not having a job several months after finishing Uni...
I've just released our new blog listing pages into the wild. You may need to empty your browser cache to see them properly. We've added photos to the most recent items as well as page and comment coun...
Last week, an executive with a regional bank in Asia explained to me that they were beginning to regret the decision to outsource their acquiring activities to a major third party processor. They are ...
I popped into a branch of my UK high-street bank last week, to help my mother-in-law transfer a large amount of money from her account to my account, which is with the same bank but at a different bra...
You remember those times in school when you thought that you should ask "Why?", but were frightened of getting into trouble with the teacher by showing that you didn't understand - ? This i...
The face of low-level payments is changing rapidly and banks need to wise up rapidly before they get left behind in, what is, a lucrative and central competency for them. Going back five years, the w...
Green, clean and mean! The YouGov survey could not be timelier. Clearly there is an incentive in becoming a ‘green’ operation and reducing one’s carbon footprint - that of reputation. Financial
Since contactless credit cards are not taking off as fast as expected, and neither customers nor merchants are excited about tapping a card instead of swiping it, some analysts have started looking at...
The University of Michigan study comes to similar conclusions to our own study - most banks have serious problems. What can I say? There's the easy way and the hard way and it appears are a multitude ...