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This year, one of the biggest identity theft rings originating from Minnesota was prosecuted—spanning 14 states and involving hundreds of victims. Total theft exceeded $2.5 million, and major retailer...
When I recently spoke to a young family acquaintance who had taken a job as a bank teller, it got me thinking about the changing nature of that role, and its future prospects. Particularly as I recall...
The metaphor of Amazon being Santa’s grotto of the 21st century, has been used many times before. But it is an interesting one, simply because it illuminates where we are as a society. Holiday gift s...
Since the release of the iPhone 5S, conversations surrounding one of its most prominent features the iBeacon, which exploits a new variant of Bluetooth technology which uses considerably lower power, ...
Transaction banking has made huge strides in recent years. The easy availability of new technologies has improved operating efficiencies and accuracy. Apart from this, the speed of transactions has al...
In our continued conversations with multinationals around the new version of the Nota Fiscal process and schema, we continue to find that many companies don't fully understand the breadth of the legis...
The annual SWIFT Standards Release is a remarkable animal. Generally speaking, the financial industry does not like to be told what to do; we hire expensive lawyers to lobby against proposed regula
It must be hard trying to start out in the world of banking. There are all of these massive competitors, hoovering up business, and there is no way to match their scale. Without scale, you cannot pay ...
Residents without bank accounts at risk of arrears under new benefits system http://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2013/dec/02/universal-credit-housing-benefit-banking Universal credit will be pa...
Clive Adamson, the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) Director of Supervision, spoke at the Insurance Institute of London. In his speech, Mr Adamson discussed the FCA’s overall aim for the insurance...
The emphasis on innovation has never been more acute; that has been clearly established based on the findings of this year's Efma-Infosys Innovation in Retail Banking study. But the study has also fou...
SEPA, the so called Single Euro Payments Area, is a combined effort of the EU governments, the European Commission and the European Central Bank to create one integrated payments market across Europe ...