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Is this fitting in with the GSMA - Western Union alliance? The telco's will get into bed with anyone for a slice of those transactions. I wonder if we'll see some trust between telco's come out of th...
If you're in the payments business in Europe and didn't attend EBAday 2008 in Helsinki last week, you definitely missed out. For networking opportunities between banks, corporates and suppliers, and f...
Financial messaging network Swift has been bigging up the switch over to its new corporate Web presence for the past few weeks now. The new site went live at the weekend, so I thought I'd pop over the...
Do you or any women you know work in technology within financial services? Have you, or they, made a significant contribution to the business? womenintechnology.co.uk is once again sponsoring the &quo...
Visa has announced plans to cut the fees charged to petrol stations in the US, amid growing unrest at the effect that high interchange charges are having on merchant profits. Announcing the move, Visa...
Investment firms were distinctly unimpressed by the London Stock Exchange's announcement that it is to work with Lehman Brothers to create a new dark pool trading platform. By mid-afternoon, shares i...
Well, not quite. But at EBAday in Helsinki there have been many calls for a mandatory end date for Sepa implementation - for a fixed date beyond which legacy national payment products within the euroz...
My last blog posting pointed to a recently-filed wireless patent from Apple for the use of GPS location tracking on the iPhone to serve up onscreen menus from establishments in your immediate vicinit...
After the opening afternoon of the EBAday 2008 payments conference and exhibition, some themes are already emerging. Euro Banking Association chairman Hansjoerg Nymphius opened the conference by remin...
Today is National Siesta Day in the UK, which aims to encourage company bosses to allow staff to have an afternoon power nap. On his Web site Noel Kingsley, founder of Siesta Awareness and organiser...
Clearly all those people signing up for the Visa thing have brought Facebook to its knees. At the time of writing when I try the site I get an Apache error message or a "document contains no data...
After a week off sick there's been a lot to blog on. I was interested in the Finextra story "HSBC creates 250 call centre jobs". The interesting thing for me is that these are onshore jobs....