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The past 30 years has seen billions of dollars spent on payments systems - with financial institutions building up a plethora of different systems and technologies designed to meet specific needs and ...
So they decided to exclude FX derivatives from the requirement to clear centrally. A case study in unintended consequences? The effect of a pair of interest rate swaps can be synthesised through a no...
Andy Schmidt, TowerGroup's research director for commercial banking and payments, has recently commented on the differences between mobile operating systems and the propensity for banks to develop app...
On EU: Questions European Tax Payers should ask: 7275 times!! https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=2815 A digital Single Market – why and how?: 2829 https://www.finextra.com/blogs
No not the title of a chapter in a John Le Carre book, nor an invitation to spice up my pc. But in a recent survey looking at impediments to accurate counterparty risk measurement (and management) the...
Someone recently asked how I feel about QE2 wrapping up at the end of June. This has been a big deal for a while, and I’d like to pose the question to you too. But first some contemporary context. Peo...
FBI's recent report states that between March 2010 and April 2011, the FBI identified twenty incidents in which the online banking credentials of small-to-medium sized U.S. businesses were compromise...
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I came across an enterprising man who worked as a driver and doubled up as the neighborhood milkman. In the initial months, he found himself collecting and carrying large amounts of money on a daily b...
As Facebook is now entering the Point of Sale arena in the US with its Daily Deals Offering the question arrises what would be the business model for true payments. Facebook credits are now converted ...
The day when your wallet becomes a relic, like an 8-track tape, isn’t here quite yet. But we are getting close. Thinning out your wallet isn’t just nice for your pants pocket. It’s also a good way to ...
Yesterday (Wed) we had Sony being not very re-assuring, saying "While there is no evidence that credit card data was taken at this time, we cannot rule out the possibility. If you have provided y...