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There’s been a lot of talk recently about the idea of ‘cashless society’ and numerous journalists seem to be jumping on the bandwagon in a bid to write a colourful story. This usually involves testing...
In my last blog I looked at different revolutions that have impacted the manufacturing industry in the past, and what the payments industry can learn from them, specifically the use of interchangeable...
Today we have seen the release of the PCI DSS take on PCI DSS Applicability in an EMV Environment: A Guidance Document. Today, we see my take on it … This document makes sense, provided one believes
The bloodhounds are continuing to register notable victories over online crime rings. This time there were a massive series of arrests done in US, UK and other countries in relation to fraudsters spr...
If Visa’s Payment Security Forum held in Cairo this week is anything to go by, Data Field Encryption projects certainly seem to be on the agenda for banks in the Middle East, Africa, and Eastern Euro...
Throughout its life, the manufacturing industry has gone through many changes that have each revolutionized the way products are made. Consider the principle of using uniform and interchangeable parts...
The recent Finextra webcast on retail banking innovation caused some a debate from various industry experts. The general consensus seemed to be that banks are severely constrained in terms of how much...
DG Infosoc is gearing up activities under the Digital Single Market headline. When this is being rolled out it is important to ask the question: Why? The obvious answers are that large scale x-sector...
The recent announcement of the multi-channelled Zeus attack on a user's internet banking account is an interesting hypothesis and surely will not be the last when it comes to beating the ever advancin...
I went to a book publishing party yesterday. Wonderful book about interior design and life by extraordinary personality. Lots of cultural types around and good food. And as I am kind of known as Mr. e...
Previously on “Why don’t you become” (here): people put their money in wallets (be those banks, or just stashes). Networks then pierce a hole in these wallets and create a widespread network that all
For a number of years now, we have seen a reduction in the use of cheque and as such, the Payments Council decided on the closure for cheque clearing by 2018. In our experience, large UK corporates ar...