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A Finextra Member

Mobiles are building up trust

I'm not suprised that people are beggining to trust their mobile phone more. There's a festival going on in the Bristol UK, http://www.thoughtden.co.uk/blog/2008/09/12/everything-costs-too-much-igfest...

12 Sep 2008
A Finextra Member

SEPA might not yet have delivered on its promises

...but SWIFT may be part of the solution. It's fair to say that the SEPA Credit Transfer go-live in January this year has been something of a non-event. SCTs have not taken off and volumes remain lo...

12 Sep 2008
Paul Penrose

Swift's new logo shock

In protest at this 21st century corporate mania for re-branding I suggest we go back to the original source material (as legend has it) and give Swift a distinctively groovy, retro feel.

11 Sep 2008
Finextra@Sibos
Hubert O'Donoghue

The need to get serious about PCI DSS

It seem like every second day we hear about another security breach or data compromise involving usually tens of thousands of card numbers and often additional and even more sensitive information whic...

11 Sep 2008
SEPA and European Payments
Paul Penrose

Sibos jetsetters go carbon neutral

Payments professionals jetting off to the Sibos international banking show in Austria next week can offset some of their planet-warming carbon emmissions by taking part in a simple online survey on Fi...

10 Sep 2008
Finextra@Sibos
A Finextra Member

The future for loyalty

Loyalty just isn’t working. While the statement may be a little sensationalist, to a large extent this is unfortunately true. In too many cases loyalty certainly isn’t working how it’s meant to. Custo...

09 Sep 2008
Paul Penrose

The contactless wristband

Antony Jenkins, CEO of Barclaycard says contactless chips have huge untapped capability, but the plastic around the chip limits its potential. "Take the plastic away and the possibilities are end...

09 Sep 2008
Futuristic Banking
Jonathan Rosenne

Could EMV have prevented the TJX breach?

I quote from the Boston Globe: "In one of the first interviews by a top TJX executive following a record security breach, vice chairman Donald G. Campbell told the Globe that the US payment syste...

08 Sep 2008
Trends in Financial Services
A Finextra Member

Personal data trading totally out of control?

Recent insight into the extent of consumer personal data available for sale has shocked German authorities into emergency meetings to enact stronger new data protection laws. Like their U.S. counterpa...

07 Sep 2008
Whatever...
Paul Penrose

How to slow down Faster Payments

In a last-ditch effort to avoid incurring another exorbitant penalty fee at my bank for (once again) overstepping my overdraft limits I authorised a transfer from my Internet-based savings account wit...

05 Sep 2008
Paul Penrose

Ibos and Swift at loggerheads over Alliance Lite

Swift chairman Yawar Shah opened an unexpected can of worms when he approached shareholders for feedback on how the bank-owned co-operative could add more value to its members. Obligingly, Ibos MD Bo

04 Sep 2008
Finextra@Sibos
Stanley Epstein

Let the innovators innovate!

If you really want to boost the EU's economic fortunes, improve its competitiveness and facilitate its progressive adaptation to the digital age then you need less regulation, not more. And the best ...

04 Sep 2008
Innovation in Financial Services

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