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Against all the odds, SEPA remained an active topic of discussion at Sibos in Amsterdam, with a degree of clarity about the specific issues of migration not usual in the SEPA debates of late. At least...
I was going to comment on Brett King's blog The perfect storm to put an end to CASH and realised that I had more than a comment. Brett makes some good points. There are many statistically compelling...
Is regulatory pressure really going up? If you listen to the vendors and the press alike, that’s certainly the impression you’ll get, but is it true? We decided to find out by looking at the evidence...
The latest of our fragmentation forums landed in Sydney last week where around 150 industry executives got together to debate Australia’s future in the global fragmentation experiment. The event was w...
The Economist Intelligence Unit has just highlighted approaches to help companies (like banks - the largest user of consultants) to “Extract Value From Consultants” As The Economist highlights (see...
Something happened last week that was so extraordinary, I had to blink and rub my eyes to really believe they weren’t deceiving me! If you have read my blogs before, you will know I regularly highligh...
“New mobile services have been established as stand-alone entities in their own right, with no integration into existing delivery channels, or indeed across other areas of the bank…The key to the succ...
To date, the poor availability of phones with NFC technology has been one of the factors holding back the use of this technology to enable wave-and-pay mobile payments in a shop or peer-to-peer paymen...
We often hear about data breaches in the news and the unfortunate victim whose operations have been devastated. But more often than not, this is as far as data security extends into our worlds. Do we ...
Key security considerations for home and mobile workers In many cases executive IT and security professionals trust their Information Security departments to provide adequate security to protect empl...
There is no doubt we live in an increasingly mobile, fast-paced and complicated society. If you had asked the average person in the street five years ago how their identity could be stolen then bin ra...
You have to admit, the Innotribe sessions at Sibos 2010 had the vibe, energy, soundtrack and dialogues of Hollywood blockbusters this year. Good storylines, happy endings and one-liners that would pu...