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The theme of this years EBA day was 'Advancing Thought Leadership' and it was refeshing to hear the welcoming speech from the chairman of EBA stressing the importance of banks in taking a more proacti...
SWIFT have been making lots of noise about getting corporates connected to their network. Sounds good and with SWIFT lite they appear to have a solution which has a cheap user charge for small or medi...
With EBAday starting tomorrow in Madrid, I can't help thinking that one of the main topics of discuss will be around innovation. Whether it is bringing new products to market or offering existing serv...
Regulators globally have expressed mixed feeling on banks and financial institutions (FIs) moving into cloud computing. The top of the list concerns are security and data privacy. There are a lot more...
Financial institutions, banks and credit cards companies, have invested billions of euros over the last 30 years on payments systems. However over time the complexity of the overall system architectur...
As smartphone uptake continues to gain momentum, the trend for consumers to access the web and information on the go via their mobiles is rapidly becoming the norm. No better is this illustrated than ...
For the past decade, much of banking has taken place online, after hundreds of years of traditional banking. Banks have streamlined their processes, but must also cope with fraud. With banks absorbing...
Favourite quote of the week from the internet "LulzSec is running around pummelling some of the world’s most powerful organisations into the ground… for laughs! For lulz! For shits and giggles! S...
The announcement today of Visa’s acquisition of Fundamo signals the drawing of the battle lines in the face off between Mastercard and Visa in the mobile payments stakes. While I understand that a wa...
I've noticed a lot of comment linking Twitter and trading recently. There was a report here on Finextra that Canada's online investors are increasingly turning to Twitter and Facebook to help them ma...
I have talked a lot recently about legacy payment systems, the problems they can cause within financial institutions and how to approach change, but I often get asked how companies can ascertain if th...
“For several years, the Euro Banking Association (EBA) has been conducting an e-invoicing working group (EIWG), with the objective of contributing to the mass adoption of e-invoicing in Europe and of ...