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Check progress here: http://boharald.blogspot.com/2009/05/e-banking-and-payments-in-finland.html Not bad for population of 5,3 million - but then we started in 1982..This will naturally happen everyw...
Check progress here: http://boharald.blogspot.com/2009/04/first-you-sign-them-up.html There are some 220 000 enterprises in Finland - by now banks have signed up an estimated 120 000 - other service p...
Once again I am appalled by the banks. Here we are, all in the midst of the worst financial crisis of the past seventy years, brought on by the greed and stupidity of the banking community and what ar...
I like to read. Videos take too long. People talk too slowly in online videos. I don't have the time to listen to endless bleating to garner a gem or two. That's why I like to read. I read very quickl...
The SEPA project received something of a blow when, in December 2008, the French Banking Federation (FBF) announced that its members had suspended work on SEPA pending clarification from European auth...
Most people confuse privacy issues with security. Further, they don't really want privacy, they want convenience and discounted goods. They think they want security, but they actually want "easy
The National Venture Capital Association yesterday unveiled a four point plan to resuscitate the dead IPO market currently vexing the VC community. The plan calls for greater cooperation among ecosyst...
While dissatisfaction with the PCI standards has been simmering for some time, the debate is now boiling over. And not before time. In March, the US House of Reps’ Homeland Security Committee held a ...
One of the best bits of good news last year found in a gloom laden industry was that the world's largest clearing house was to merge with one of European largest clearing houses. The opportunity to co...
Andrew Haldane's paper "Rethinking the Financial Network" really is an excellent piece and the first convincing explanation of the current financial crisis that I've come across. Highly rec...
At a recent BT breakfast seminar a number of software vendors presented their own perspectives on the Euroclear harmonisation project and how it could benefit the UK securities market. The potential c...
In 2009 "cutting costs" is on every CEOs/VPs lips and Customer Services are often the target of this policy. Customer Services What is it? Everything is in the title. It's all about "...