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Here at Finextra we try to maintain a healthy level of scepticism when it comes to research and surveys commissioned by firms with a vested interest in getting a certain kind of result. We're inundate...
Serious message to senders of paper - or otherwise unstructured - invoices - and in the next stage: orders, confirmations, rfis, account statements - you name it...
“One third of CIOs reported no change in their budget from 2008, while 46 percent reported a slight increase, and 21 percent reported a cut in IT budgets” [1]. Most businesses are facing flat or only ...
a) Core Banking Introduction In a nutshell a core banking system is a centralized self contained system that shall have the benefits of performing multiple transaction activities coupled with scal...
If you've enjoyed the festive season and overindulged, and you're at over 90% of your Credit Limit on your Halifax Credit Card - then beware. You might not have noticed but the Minimum Repayment and y...
I wrote about the UK Government Gateway last week https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=2424 This week the HMRC came under fire over site security http://newswires.vnunet.co.uk/c/1ey33...
In the current fraud eco system, being a harvesting fraudster is easier than ever – but the EPS - earning per scam - has gone down dramatically. This is particularly true for fraudsters focused on onl...
At this weeks Purchasing Card Forum, Nick Ogden, founder of WorldPay and currently chairman and CEO of Voice Commerce Group presented the use of voice recognition as the next big thing in security. H...
Is this crisis the end of social lending? Yes and no. Majority of the social lending services which have been shut down (Prosper and Zopa US, to name the famous ones) were actually more like tradition...
To my great satisfaction I read recently that Carrefour will issue it's PASS card with contactless technology in collaboration with MasterCard. The new card will be on the cutting edge of current ca...
Where has all that money gone? I have found it hard not to post a blog saying 'I told you so'. I might suggest that at least a couple of hundred billion had vanished before the crash ala the Ponzi sch...
I have been thinking a lot about how the crisis is having a different impact on the world’s national banks, which don’t seem to be suffering as badly as the big international players. In the cards and...