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The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) represents a watershed moment for the payments industry. This is not simply another data compliance headache. GDPR enshrines a new idea: that consume...
The EPC, the European Payments Council, has published the results of a poll held during this Summer amongst its members in the payments industry about blockchain and its impact by 2015. Being an imp
A while back I blogged my concerns about the future of mobile payments; “Why I am worried about the future of Mobile payments”. In essence, the problem that I focused on is this - there are just too ...
The phrase “you are only as strong as your weakest link” while true is just not enough in our technology-based society, where cyberinsecurity is pervasive. It is not a question of “if” a cyberattack ...
There is growing consensus amongst major institutions on use cases that blockchain technology can be applied to. While the focus long time has been on payments and the securities industry, trade fina...
There is a lot of talk about digital transformation by banks but the reality is that despite what they say they are not doing it. What the vast majority of banks are actually doing is digital enableme...
In Part 1 titled “Fintechs Need Marketers And Lobbyists – Not Lawyers”, we saw why marketers and lobbyists play a vital role in a fintech startup’s success. In this second part, we'll examine the fol...
The proposed sale of Vocalink to MasterCard, threatens to kill innovation in UK Payments. This is my damning verdict and reason for calling on payments experts to come together to voice their opinions...
Wooden. Layered. Traditional. I could make the obvious "and thats just the banks!" joke, but I think I'll refrain. Russian nesting dolls (or matryoshka dolls) are weird little things. Normal...
The recent slew of exchange announcements introducing new dark trading facilities in response to MiFID II would appear to suggest that the regulation has triggered a whole raft of innovations. But is ...
As the dust continues to settle after the momentous decision by UK to leave the EU, the implications in terms of EU regulation are pretty clear, with the FCA stating whilst the UK remains in the EU (f...
For my first post, I thought I'd look at some of the issues that exist around managing trading data. After all, market trading generates phenomenal amounts of data. The NYSE, for example, saw more tha...