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Brett King

Mobile is already Mainstream - including at Starbucks

There has been some debate on Finextra of late as to whether Mobile Wallets and Payments are mainstream, or whether we are still years off seeing them have some real impact on commerce and payments. I...

03 Oct 2013
Innovation in Financial Services
A Finextra Member

It makes perfect sense of course, to have a Plan

I am, however reminded that historicaly, banks weren't lock or safemakers, they were banks. Lock-pickers & safecrackers had quite a few wins, but different specialist industries evolved to deal wi...

03 Oct 2013
Innovation in Financial Services
Pat Carroll

Solution to improving the payments ecosystem? Collaboration

The US Federal Reserve Banks recently announced a public consultation exercise on improving the future U.S. payment system. In the U.K., the newly formed Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has also ju...

02 Oct 2013
Innovation in Financial Services
Brett King

USA - world's largest closed loop payments system?

Last year the US contributed close to 20% of the world's GDP despite coming off the back of the biggest economic downturn since the 1930's Great Depression. The US, UK, Germany, Russian and CIS State...

02 Oct 2013
Innovation in Financial Services
Keith Appleyard

RBS does have robust procedures

I consider myself primarily an RBS Customer, with other on-line accounts at many other Banks including Barclays & Halifax. Overall I am very reassured by the RBS processes, however ..... I do find...

01 Oct 2013
Whatever...
A Finextra Member

IVR payment processing for PCI DSS compliance

In my last blog, I looked at pause and resume recording, a method of protecting call recording archives from sensitive card data. An alternative solution is to remove the card data from agent interact...

01 Oct 2013
A Finextra Member

Pace of Change and Innovation

Last Monday (23rd) was Day 1 of the Annual EBUG conference held in London's famous Institute of Civil Engineers. In a way it made me wonder if anyone will be able to Engineer the future of Cards &...

01 Oct 2013
Banking Architecture
Craig Ramsey

Streamlining systems: meet consumer demand to be competitive

With bank switching now easier than ever before, we’re at a point where maintaining a high level of customer satisfaction is going to be crucial to a bank’s success. Customers don’t just want the best...

30 Sep 2013
Enrico Camerinelli

Bellin and SWIFT to Build a New Treasury Platform

Today, SWIFT and treasury systems vendor Bellin announced that they will implement a direct connection between SWIFT and Bellin’s tm5. Treasury intelligence management systems (TiMSs), a term coined b...

25 Sep 2013
Treasury Management
A Finextra Member

Is that a gun in your pocket?

When you pay with your card in a retail outlet, what is more important - that you pay with a card or that it's you who is making that payment? The industry is still defining CP as "card present&q...

25 Sep 2013
Innovation in Financial Services
A Finextra Member

The data-generating generation: what does it mean for banks?

Baby-boomers will soon be transferring their assets to generations X and Y, primarily defined by their exposure to technology and the web from an early age. As banks’ relationship management styles gr...

24 Sep 2013
A Finextra Member

What is the Mobile Payments Ecosystem?

I've been trying to figure out how the different companies get together to manage card payments. It's a complicated business, and I’m still learning. Readers, please do comment and correct my underst...

24 Sep 2013

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