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Spammers send unwanted emails or texts that are both annoying and frightening. Most spam messages are useless advertisements selling stuff you don’t need or want. In 1995, 8,069 unique pieces of malwa...
Most credit managers or directors manage multiple collection agency relationships for their B2B collections, yet the process of managing these relationships can be highly manual and complex creating l...
In Part I of my Risk-based Collections blog series, I described the differences between Judgmental and Statistical Scoring models. In Part II, I discussed which scores are best for managing existin...
On Tuesday I chaired the Future of Mobile Banking conference held in London. It was a great event, with a wide variety of highly qualified speakers and some very smart debate on topics including mobil...
The ability to track parcels through every step of their journey has been with us for decades. Shouldn’t we be able to do the same for international payments? Why is transparency in international paym...
Nice to see the row over Europe’s consolidated tape has been given a good old stir by BATS Chi-X as the market was at risk of subsuming to apathy. The problem is that whilst everyone wants a consolid...
Investment management firms spend a great deal of time and money improving their operational architecture, though often stop short when it comes to a key area affecting revenue management – client bil...
In Europe, the open standards movement is gaining momentum. It is increasingly accepted that standards collaboration increases organisational interoperability, ensuring that different systems can com...
The Eternal Flame is something you’ll probably recognize as the ever burning fire in ancient Greece; but in fact it has deeper roots in the Middle East. The first records of such custom are, interesti...
The Brazil tax authority, also known as SEFAZ, imposes a defined electronic standard format that all companies must adhere to closely. This “Nota Fiscal Eletronica” (NF-e) format is officially recogni...
Many organisations are awaiting further clarification of requirements before determining their approach to FATCA compliance. Indeed interest groups continue to lobby for further burden reducing conces...
Digital migration: You could be saving $500k in print & postage! Do you know exactly what your company’s targets are for print and postage savings over the next two years? Not having targets cou...