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When the US Payment is the Foreign Payment

The North American B2B Payments landscape is somewhat unique, due in large part to the significantly high use of checks as opposed to ACH, wires or cards. The shortcomings of checks are well known and...

31 Mar 2011
Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
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Are Pay to Use ATMs going the dinosaur way ?

I always thought that with so many 'free to use' cash machines, why would any customer pay a charge to withdraw one's own money. I stopped by the services at Beaconsfield and saw two Link cash machine...

31 Mar 2011
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OTC opportunities in infrastructure investment

There’s a lot of talk right now about regulation in the OTC derivatives market – and rightly so. Both Dodd-Frank in the US and the proposed European Market Infrastructure Regulations (EMIR) in Europe ...

31 Mar 2011
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Reflections on SEPA

Tomorrow SEPA has been over four months a primary payment system in Europe. It is really good system, in paper. Hopefully soon in reality. I have collected some of my own real life experience using SE...

31 Mar 2011
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Impact of Basel III on International Trade Finance

Basel III regulations are attempting to bring back some the much-needed checks and balances in the Finance Industry so that we do not see a repeat of 2008 crisis. The set of guidelines is all about re...

30 Mar 2011
Innovation in Financial Services
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Why Do Checks Still Dominate B2B Payments in NA? Cont'd

Why do companies continue to pay by check? In part five of the series, “The Top 5 Reasons Why Checks Still Dominate B2B Payments,” I explore the challenges of corporate inertia and resistance to chang...

29 Mar 2011
Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
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NFC Options for Banks

In response to the blog about "Google partners Citi and MasterCard on NFC m-payments", I thought I would give you my thoughts on the NFC options that are out there. It might only be Citi f...

29 Mar 2011
Innovation in Financial Services
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How to build customer resistance against e-billing

Barrie Arnold of Striata, document service provider, posted an intriguing article their blog on how NOT to persuade your customer into e-billing. He wrote in his post that when he wanted to enrol at

25 Mar 2011
Innovation in Financial Services
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Customer created bank services

Instead of each bank creates their own new services, is there a need for customer created banking services? Current world Today if I have a new and brilliant idea of new banking service, I tell my own...

24 Mar 2011
Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
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Cutting costs is not enough

Yesterday at the IPS conference in London, a major theme emerged for payment banks: managing costs is no longer enough to maintain a successful payments business – banks simply have to become more eff...

24 Mar 2011
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Mobile banking to take off - if the user experience is right

Sebastien Slim points out in his blog post (Generating loyal customers through mobile banking, 14 March 2011) that analyst research shows that banks are starting to take notice of mobile banking, sta...

24 Mar 2011
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The one word your IT department does not want to hear

Within most companies when you hear the word "growth," it is often implies "success." But that thinking is not universal. To IT department staff, the word "growth" can ha...

23 Mar 2011

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