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Last week I visited for the first time the Internet Identity Workshop in Mountain View (www.internetidentityworkshop.com). It was a great happening with lots of people ‘on a mission’ (me included).
A couple of weeks ago a Community member asked other members to respond to his blog with their insights for an article he was researching. If only there was a section within the Finextra Community whe...
Yesterday was the final day of EBAday and, as expected, many of the sessions focused on the challenges that banks are currently facing as they integrate SEPA with their domestic payments infrastructur...
You don’t need to own a house to become a victim of mortgage fraud. Heck, you don’t even need to be older than 3 to be a victim. As long as the thief has a Social Security number, they can apply for l...
Danger!! How’s that for a blog title that screams fear, uncertainty and doubt!? Fact is Facebook boast 400 million users and is in so many ways seems out of the control of its founder, and is looking ...
There's a lot of excitement about Apple's new iPad. This week it was reported in various news sources that two banks in Australia were releasing an iPad app to capitalize on the iPad fever. Now... yo...
Today marks the second anniversary of the Faster Payments Service that has helped reduce UK payment processing time from three working days to near real time. According to a recent Payments Council re...
As the banking industry reflects on the aftermath of the recent financial crisis, the first day of this year’s EBADay in Luxemburg began with discussions on how banks need to regain trust of their cus...
The second birthday of the UK Faster Payments Service (FPS) is upon us. However, the scheme still has a few teething problems that need to be straightened out. On the one hand, consumers’ use of the s...
Seeing this story of the ham fisted attempt by thiefs in Germany who blew up a bank to get at an ATM, which survived, made me think of John Shepherd-Barron, the ATM inventor who passed away last week....
Some charmingly inept robbers have completely demolished a bank in Malliss in Germany by somewhat miscalculating the amount of explosives needed. Despite the devastation, the ATM remained intact and t...
This week saw the announcement that six brokers are going to publish their dark pool volumes in a bid to improve transparency of non-lit trading in Europe. The report is published by Markit and is av...