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Mobile is tapping into high street shopping, with a new app from Quidco which will pay users small amounts of money to go into certain retailers, and send them discount coupons. It uses GPS technology...
One of the top questions that comes up in virtually every Mexico e-Invoicing meeting is: Do I really need to do the inbound validation of invoices? Many companies think that they don't have to do th...
A French friend of mine recently boasted about his "ultra-secure" credit card issued by his local bank - that card required SMS-based authorization of every transaction. There is nothing sec...
Clients and suppliers need strong complementary capabilities to make IT outsourcing relationships successful. Extensive studies have shown this to be a fact. The offshore factory with the cheapest se...
Last year in the UK, it was made mandatory that all telephone and other mobile devices used by employees trading or offering advisory services in regulated financial services firms, had to be recorded...
Some say there will be a day when the wallet you carry in your pocket or purse will become obsolete. The plan is to eliminate all our credit cards, store cards, and IDs and use our mobile phones as ou...
The world of client onboarding is bracing itself for a raft of new regulations that will have a significant impact on global reference data and associated data quality for risk management and complian...
Core banking systems were built for a slower technological pace, where code changes were rare and stability and security were paramount. Now, legacy core banking systems are an impediment to innovatio...
Investors are getting smarter, and their changing needs and expectations are having a notable impact on the requirements of the technological infrastructure that asset managers rely on to accurately h...
Viewing a balance is by far the number one transaction conducted in Mobile banking. Eighty per cent of the time it is the only activity done by a customer after they login. That’s right. Eight out ...
As reported in March, the FBI has uncovered a network of rogue DNS servers and has taken steps to disable them. DNS (Domain Name System) is an Internet service that converts user-friendly domain name...
According to the most recent figures in the annual World Payments Report*, there are about 260 billion non-cash payments made each year, with credit and debit card use up by 9.7% at the last count. Th...