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On Wednesday, I was at Finextra’s Social Media Day in London where Ross was moderating a panel on social data. The most interesting part of the day for me (surprise, surprise) was the panel discussin...
I too would prefer to have a single common method of identifying myself online: a single common avatar that I use across all sites, with a single common (complex and strong) method of authenticating m...
Like Chris Skinner just wrote in his blog, there is a war on m-wallets. But what is really m-wallet fuzz all about? There have been and there still are several players who want to create mobile wallet...
The essence of 2012: Billentis eBilling & eInvoicing Report The 2012 Billentis eBilling & eInvoicing Report has been released. This is my interpretation of the findings as well as some of the ...
This is taken from a series of blogs on various regulation themes that are occupying the minds of asset managers and fund administrators globally. While Solvency II is of European origin, it has glob...
As an email marketing and billing provider, I choose to receive most communication by email, including the majority of my monthly bills (except for those vendors that don't offer email billing – SO 'l...
Off the back of Pingit, Barclaycard is continuing its assault on the mobile payments world with the launch of its recent ‘mobile’ contactless offering PayTag. Positioned as the low-tech alternative to...
Any shortening of the settlement cycle is clearly going to tax operations to complete all the tasks necessary to settle only two days after trade date. I remember being head of operations when the mov...
A recent study by Ericsson revealed 10 hot consumer trends for 2012. Although these are mainly general mobile trends, all of them do have a clear imprint in the financial services industry. In this po...
Who owns my data and where it is? Google has a lot of info about me, banks and insurance agents have it too, credit card companies carry a lot of payment data about me plus several other companies and...
Since first trials of WAP mobile banking from late 1990s, several players has forced banking to mobile phone. There has been a hype around this white wedding paradigma over 15 years. Why mobile weddi...
Stolen phones are a big problem here in the US. Many are stolen in robberies. Robberies are, by definition, violent crimes, and there are many instances of robberies of mobile phones that resulted in ...