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My introductory blog last week included references to a bicycle race. I now bring us to our first race stop, and this week we're going to talk about ‘real time’. At this point in the race, our cyclis...
When we have been working with changing direction in large companies or large scale projects like x-EU e-invoice harmonization, automated VAT reporting and the real time economy generally speaking we ...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a new webpage setting out its role in regulating the commodities markets. The FCA has set out its views on the regulatory challenges arising from c...
The mobile community has just spent the week together in Barcelona. I’m just back having survived the biggest event to support the mobile community – the GSMA Mobile World Congress #MWC2014. Walking t...
The UK and Singapore have agreed to set up a UK-Singapore Financial Dialogue designed to deepen financial and economic cooperation between the two countries. This dialogue will form the basis for a r...
Us geeks have a strong tradition of introducing some great acronyms into the global vernacular: DVD, USB, DOS, WiFi are a few. As the world searches for the lost Malaysian Airlines flight and its pass...
Cost reduction has become a strategic driver for businesses. As a result, tech-savvy CFOs are becoming the popular choice to lead technology investment decisions. But this paradigm shift in the CIO la...
Last week, surrounded by all the pop shows and colors that only Las Vegas can provide, IBM revealed its latest marketing play: opening its billions of dollars middleware products to the internet for t...
The government says it will be able to make universal credit payments into a Post Office card account. Photograph: David Sillitoe for the GuardianThe government remains committed to paying the new &qu...
For a number of years, the market has been talking about creating a culture of compliance. Following the credit crisis in 2008, the urgency of being prepared was at the forefront of everyone’s mind, p...
With a huge focus on wearable tech at this year’s event, what is the impact on the payments space? As you’d expect, Mobile World Congress saw some of the most exciting announcements and innovative pro...
The U.S. Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released the last substantial package of regulations necessary to implement the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). I...