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When you live and breathe eBilling and eStatements like I do (I know – I need to get a life!), it’s sometimes surprising when you hear other people’s thoughts and expectations on the subject. I met wi...
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The EBA is keen to get community input on the EBAday topics for 2012 and invite bankers, corporate treasurers, and infrastructure and service providers to provide their suggestions and feedback in the...
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Most of my posts so far have been focused on Big Data technology in Financial Services. In this installment, I’d like to switch gears a bit and focus on the industry itself, paying more attention to a...
It is that time of the year again. Next week will see more than 60,000 telecoms professionals, journalists and bloggers descend on Barcelona for Mobile World Congress. Plenty has already been writte...
Value is a concept that means different things for different people in the value chain. Understanding each perspective is vital. For consumers, under most circumstances, payments should be like an int...
I've previously blogged to urge Mark Zuckerburg to beware of hubris, to realise that just as he's created value extremely quickly, it can be disappear just as fast. There are many people out there hap...
I was working on some data analysis for a client, pulling out swathes of CSV from Facebook and using it to create insights around the demographics and behaviour of a specific audience. Aside from havi...
According to Financial Times, Vista Equity Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in software and technology-enabled businesses based in USA, has launched a rival £1.2bn offer for Misys...
Two stories this week demonstrated that Greece isn’t the only thing Europe has to disagree about. Together they both help highlight the problem regulators have worldwide with HFT. The first story, by...