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Paul Blank

Talk of ICE exchange to buy FX platform Fastmatch

Interesting to see that Profit&Loss running a story that the US futures Exchange ICE may be preparing to buy our all three shareholders (Credit Suisse, BNY Mellon and FXCM) of FX platform Fastmatc...

20 Jul 2015
Ganesh Guruvayur

Putting the best 'card' forward - Payment Hub for Mobile Wallets??

In the electronic payments world, the complex maze of payment product processors in banks, each dedicated to a payment type, led to the evolution of an envelope layer that would sit behind all payment...

20 Jul 2015
Rolf Enders

Cultural change will reunite banks with their long-lost profitability levels

Radical cost-cutting, branch-closing and job-axing are no longer enough. In the era of digitalization, low interest margins, strict regulations and brave new-entrant banks will need to find a new appr...

20 Jul 2015
A Finextra Member

Less than 160 days.....and counting

Although the festive season is still five months away, restaurants are already taking bookings for Christmas. They are not alone - retailers and ecommerce outlets are also gearing up for what is gener...

20 Jul 2015
Ketharaman Swaminathan

Mitigating Fraud Does Not Pay The Bills

Many discussions of security standards emphasize how Chip + PIN and Two Factor Authentication reduce fraud loss and exhort countries using Magstripe / Chip + Signature and Single Factor Authen...

20 Jul 2015
Alex Noble

The quiet FinTech revolution: Insurance

To say there is “hype” around FinTech doesn’t do justice to the some of the rather breathless reports that have recently been appearing. Some of this is a genuine feeling (bothin media and industry) t...

20 Jul 2015
Innovation in Financial Services
A Finextra Member

Apple Pay and TfL tidbits

When you tap in with Apple Pay on the TfL's network in London (e.g. enter the Tube), the transaction goes to the issuer for authorization. In the case of Amex, they - unlike Visa - charge you £0.10 at...

20 Jul 2015
Innovation in Financial Services
A Finextra Member

Do you invest or do you execute?

Under MiFID II, both buy-side and sell-side firms are required to record and to report on, separately, the algorithms used in making both the investment decision and the execution decision. In most ag...

17 Jul 2015
Mark Kanji

Why the loyalty market is ripe for disruption...

Many believe that the loyal customer is a dying breed. And in an age where countless savings can be found online and budget retailers offer tempting discounts, who can really blame them? Recent figure...

17 Jul 2015
A Finextra Member

Apple Pay: lessons for Cupertino

One could be more forgiving and attribute bad UX to "teething problems", but not when it comes to the world's largest company and expansion launch (rather than greenfield ops). Apple should ...

17 Jul 2015
Innovation in Financial Services
A Finextra Member

Why I'm Concerned For The FIX Service Profile

Over the past few months I've been talking with people on both sides of the Atlantic - exchanges, brokers and ISVs - about the emerging concept of electronic specifications in financial services, and ...

16 Jul 2015
Robert Siciliano

How to Recognize a Phishing Scam

So someone comes up to you in a restaurant—a complete stranger—and asks to look at your driver’s license. What do you do? Show it to that person? You’d have to be one loony tune to do that. However, t...

16 Jul 2015

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