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As discussed in previous blogs on the Chinese renminbi, trading the currency (or other products that use the currency) is no simple matter. The Renminbi currency (the chinese yuan) has both an onshor...
Mobile payments are changing the checkout experience. This is valid for both in store transactions and for online ones. Payments, once limited to passive instruments like cash, checks and cards, can
It’s a common scene: a customer waiting patiently for a card transaction to be processed. In most cases it only takes a few seconds, but it can certainly seem longer. While some staff may try and fill...
In effort to better understand the mobile payments space I find myself spending considerable time speaking with retailers. Retailers - particularly those who have implemented their own closed-loop wal...
In the wake of a recent Citizens Advice study* which revealed that that nine out of ten benefit recipients believe they will be unable to cope when Universal Credit is introduced, there is now an urge...
Hello Google Wallet, your birthday was 2 months ago. I followed your birth on Youtube. You're the reason why I started to get interested in mobile payment. Before you came on stage, paying with mobil...
I wonder what would happen if every financial service organisation in the world was required to make just six little fields of data available to customers in an automated and open standard automated f...
Financial institutions, venture capitalists and any organization that believes in mobile payments are busy building their vision for a mobile wallet. However, the majority of these groups are building...
Dividing derivatives contracts into over-the-counter and exchange-traded would seem to be a simple task, but this is far from true. Thanks to EMIR’s definition of ‘on-exchange‘, contracts that are tr...
Secure Electrans are on a mission to combat e-comm fraud. The concept is simple - give consumers a free PIN pad for home use, so that every e-comm transaction can be done with the same level of secur...
The Treasury's response to the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standard's investigation, published last week, was largely greeted with relief in the City with share prices on banks soaring. But th...
A professional cycling team's captain is not unlike a big bank's risk manager It’s July, and to many that means just one thing: the100th edition of the Tour De France! Established in 1903, ostensibly ...