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We have seen, heard and acted a lot in the Payments space over last few years either to comply with new regulations like SEPA or to consolidate Payments Systems to reduce costs. Covering the obvious
Some years ago I was in charge of Nordic payment project, where we suppose to build a common interface for Nordic online bank. For several years that project was stuck, because a lot of misunderstandi...
OK, I have not initiated a Finextra blog for a while. Time to at least put an alternate perspective on the raft of NFC spawned mobile payment announcements. NFC is being embedded in devices. POS te...
My pals at BankSimple soft launched their debit cards internally for their staff this week, which is big news because it signifies the acceleration of the big shift in the BANK 2.0 landscape. Interest...
Fed seeks annual U.S. bank stress tests. In his recent address at the 47th Annual Conference on Bank Structure and Competition, Chicago, Chairman Bernanke spoke of initiatives on both sides of the
Some of you may know I've been on the road the past few weeks. A big social media blog is coming soon. But I wanted to get in a few words about Cris Conde while the news is still fresh. I'd like to th...
Funny what you find in your spam mail, this weeks mail has broadened my horizons to include penis enlargement treatment, a link to a young lady of dubious morals and, wait for the drum roll, a lady of...
Tablets. Love them, or hate them, lots of people have them and are using them. And using them to access Internet Banking, to name just one problem area. Because the thing about tablets, is that, well ...
No, not yet, but this might be about to change. Jack Dorsey recently made a photo post of an internal Square dashboard to celebrate their achievement of a Daily GPV (Gross Payment Value) of $2 millio...
The merger mania in the exchange space took another twist last week when a consortium of Canada’s largest banks and pension funds put forward an alternative offer for TMX in an attempt to scupper the...
...because if you don’t get involved in the LEI (Legal Entity Identifier) process, you’ll get what you’re given and you’ll pay the price. And that won’t just affect financial institutions and trading...
A month ago, when I read this news item on Finextra about ISIS ditching Discover and deciding to tie up with Visa and MasterCard, something didn't sound right. After all, creating another payment netw...