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After evaluating lots of candidates, burning the midnight oil, I’m proud to publish, what I think is the world’s first Periodic Table of Remittances (Money Transfer). The table provides a glance into ...
I get around 15 bills a month from a variety of telcos, utilities, and other billers. Being an omnichannel freak, I don't have any bias towards how I pay them, with my choice of payment channel depend...
The Faster Payments Scheme Limited has worked hard to understand the access challenges to Faster Payments, and they’ve discovered two distinct groups of users: those requiring Immediate/ Real Time pay...
Curious to understand where mobile payments has actually got to in Europe, I recently caught up with Christian von Hammel-Bonten, EVP at Wirecard AG, to gain insights from the recent launches Wirecard...
I took a trip to one of London’s major retail outlets last Tuesday, there wasn’t anything particularly unusual about my trip but an unplanned excursion to the men’s accessory section sparked a glaring...
Financial services can be a risky business. For corporate treasurers it is listed as yet another of their “key priorities”, particularly as they become more involved in the strategic decision making ...
At the recent Payments Fraud and Security conference, a topic that came up regularly was the concept of data sharing to assist Banks and Financial institutions in the ongoing fight against fraud. Data...
There are times and dates in your life when you look back and think – yes, that was when my life did a pivot. When you feel your world turn and find yourself facing a new and sometimes scary direction...
Another week, another FinTech event. It seems our industry has more events than most. Last week was MoneyConf in Belfast, and this post provides my observations from that event as well as some tho
Is trust for banks being rebuilt? Tentative improving news for the banks! 33% of customers grew more confident about the industry in the last 12 months according to Ernst & Young. And only 19% lo...
What’s in a wristband – will wearables prevent heart attacks and help manage money better? If we thought smartphones allowed for constant access to information, wearables allow for instantaneous acces...
Britain’s banking industry has a paper problem. According to research by high street bank TSB, three quarters (75 per cent) of Brits claim their day-to-day use of paper for things like letters, postc...