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Now we are all back in the office, it is timely to reflect on last week at Sibos, momentous by any measure. The Closing Plenary certainly caught the mood, but interwoven throughout that session was a ...
Mick Jagger is joining a load of industry bods - including Steve Jobs - to draw up a report on barriers to e-commerce within the EU. He was asked to help out after taking part in a roundtable discussi...
As we approach the end of Sibos, activity in the exhibition halls continues, at least for us, at a high level. Outside the Sibos 'bubble', when the media intrude, it seems that all hell has broken loo...
Exceptions are the curse of the payments industry; They are the risk They are the cost They are the operational inefficiency As an industry we need to apply the same level of technology to the except
The numbers behind Google's processing are staggering. Indexing over one trillion URLs, the Internet search giant reported in January that it processes 20 Petabytes of data per day. My Word spellcheck...
A survey by my company - ACI Worldwide - at Sibos found that 78 percent of those delegates questioned who expressed an opinion ‘strongly agree' or ‘agree' that the migration to SEPA instruments has b...
Following on from my previous blog about the mileage a typical Sibos delegate clocks up during the event, I have an update for you. Monday started quite slowly with a modest 7.8km - there was a lot o...
...but how? In one of my earlier posts, I mentioned that change needs to occur in order for SEPA to succeed. Over the course of the past few days at Sibos, it has become even clearer to me that thr...
There's a first time for everything and an early morning run at Sibos certainly was a first for me. Thanks to the good people at EBA Clearing and our excellent local guides from RZB a couple of the Fi...
Mobile phones support secure (encrypted) data transfer on the internet (the same as is used on computers). So the level of security for the internet traffic is at the very least equal to computers. F...
Price and cost reduction featured heavily in today's opening plenary with much emphasis on the co-operative nature of Swift. But all of this discussion is set against the backdrop of - not to put too ...
Before Sibos is over? So, another year older and so too another Sibos, this my third. Although still a relative novice, I have pondered in the past just how much distant a Sibos delegate without a sta...