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Is it just a matter of time before disaster strikes and a lot of unsuspecting people lose their money? That is a real possibility and in that crisis there will be no deposit guarantees and no governm...
As I write, I’m on my way home from a punishing 3-day trip to Denver for the quarterly ISITC meeting. I didn’t set foot outside from the moment I checked in on Sunday morning until it was time to hea...
Security increases friction. That's not news. I've written a few blog posts - click here, and here - on this perennial tradeoff in payments. However, I recently realized that security measures can ac...
When about a month ago I read a blog by David Marcus “State of Payments: Reinventing Money” it triggered an immediate reaction in me to respond. That reaction was not of a disagreement necessarily
Of all the financial buzzwords on Wall Street, "risk" and "operations" are in the forefront these days. With new position limits, rules and regulations rolling out as fast as firms...
I’m not one to quote Nietzsche, but he is attributed with saying “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.” And herein is one of the most important factors in...
In the ongoing game of one-upmanship between hackers and payment fraud prevention technology, new research presented at the 35th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy suggests that the fraudsters hav...
Summer is upon us, and it's time to do mid-year revision of my predictions for 2014 (last year I got 6 out 7 right). Wearables - tick Samsung's Gear 2, Moto 360 by Motorola, G watch by Google (develo...
Act now on transfers before the regulators act on you Despite a significant rise in the number of affluent investors, the wealth management industry’s track record of keeping its customers happy is st...
ATM Cash Management - It might not look like it, but now is the time to prepare for a rise in interest rates. There are still mixed signals on the future of short term interest rates and with the ECB ...
Imagine that one day people from your country’s rural areas start paying with their mobiles. Would it be strange? Definitely. That would mean they are more advanced in mobile payments adoption than th...
Finally, the dust has settled! About 550 million adult Indians have chosen a decisive government with absolute majority, and that too for the first time in about 30 years. The world’s largest democra...