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Top 10 Payments Predictions for 2016 -- What do think will happen in 2016? By Gerard Hergenroeder – Thoughts expressed wherein may not necessarily be endorsed by his employer. # 1 Wallet Wars -- Cl...
So another year begins and for many this brings a New Year's resolution – getting fit to name but one. For many financial institutions however I wonder if the resolution could be to (finally) start t...
The UK’s Faster Payments Service (FPS) turned seven years of age last summer. In this relatively short lifetime Europe’s only 24/7 real-time payments system has proven to be a solid success. With paym...
Events last week have asked the market a serious question . Do our regulators have the respect or trading knowledge to understand market making from manipulation ? Currently under "the Volcker ...
Small countries have many disadvantages - small home markets, small languages, smaller skill pools and smaller resources - to mention a few. But they also have advantages - better opportunities for n...
In an increasingly competitive financial services arena, financial institutions are pressured more than ever to meet the evolving wants and needs of their customers. This stress is putting each instit...
New technologies are allowing us to reimagine the entire customer payment experience. In the future, the only mandatory inputs for a transaction will be the merchant’s price and the customer’s accepta...
The term Internet of Things (IoT) has been used for some time now, referring to the connected nature of our society thanks to smart devices. It’s the communication between machines, sharing informatio...
A group of people who are actively collaborating to commit identity fraud is known as an identity fraud ring. These rings are generally made up of two or more career criminals, often including family ...
There is an extraordinary anomaly in the business world, which it seems very few are aware of, but which to anyone with a logical mind must surely seem rather strange. The fact is that whilst firms in...
Technology is changing the shape of Britain’s financial services (FS) industry extremely quickly, and 2016 will see the sector make serious steps toward a digital revolution. Here are our key predicti...
Welcome back to this first full week of work after the holiday season for most of you. I live in the outer boroughs of Greater London. The leafy idyll that is zone 6 (we have a Nandos and everything)....