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So Monday has come and gone – what’s the mood of delegates at Sibos? With some exceptions I believe the feeling is of cautious pessimism. We know that things are not going well, but for the time being...
Payments hubs have been a talking point for a number of years now. Once envisioned as the 'silver bullet' for payment system consolidation, the reality has become somewhat different. I've talked to ...
Now that the volume of cash circulating through society is falling, bank robbery is no longer the blue-collar career it used to be. These days, it seems that career criminals have two options: diversi...
While some of the get-togethers have already started to happen, Sibos 2011 starts in earnest in Toronto on Monday and promises to raise some important issues. I was last in Toronto almost thirty years...
Everyone agrees that e-invoice saves money, makes things easier and it is good for environment. But if we think situation for SME, this makes sense but still it is hard to adjust business for this. Go...
In Part 1 of this blog post, we'd compared the realtime SMS alerts for credit card transactions sent out by two banks, BANK1 and BANK2. In this Part 2, we'll look at these SMS alerts as 'products' a...
We all know how burning the need to save costs is in the public sector - to have to borrow less and avoid competitiveness destroying tax hikes etc. When this is coupled with a need to move a soon sca...
Yesterday, PCI SSC published its first set of Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) solution requirements. This document, eagerly awaited by many, focuses on solutions that use cryptographic hardware to ...
This blog was created while Mark was working at The Logic Group. I am looking for a new wallet. It must be leather, bi-fold, and have a space for notes...I abandoned carting around loose change a whil...
It’s hard to believe that Sibos is upon us again. It doesn’t seem like almost a year since we were all in Amsterdam. (Although they do say that times goes faster as you get older, so maybe that’s to b...
With liquidity shortfalls playing such a fundamental role in the financial crisis of 2008, it’s no surprise that regulations such as Basel III and Dodd-Frank are pushing financial institutions to rais...
We all know that SIBOS is a massively important event for the FinTech community, it is also a perfect time to lay down competitive traps for your competition. Your potential customers will be listenin...