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Craig Ramsey

Head of Real-Time Payments

ACI Worldwide

Member since

09 Sep 2009

Location

Watford

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Cloudy with a chance of greatness. Blog Series Week 4

This week I’ve been traveling, so the bicycle has been stored in the garage and as I write this I find myself on a plane. Therefore, what better subject for this week's discussion than clouds- or more specifically cloud computing, or On Demand, or SaaS- whatever your preferred term is. There has been much discussion about cloud taking off for some...

01 April 2014 /payments

Sticky Corporates and SMEs: Blog Series Week 3

Customers are the most important piece of the transaction banking puzzle. Without them, we have no industry. So this week on our third stop on the “Tour de Transaction Banking,” I want to discuss KYC (know your customer). This concept is not just a demand from regulatory authorities, but it is also essential to ensure success in any bank’s transac...

25 March 2014 /payments

PowerPoint is stopping true greatness: Blog series week 2

Nothing annoys me more than failed promises. And of course I'm not alone. At one end of the spectrum, it might be just the electrician not turning up on time, but in our world of IT, failed promises start to cost people their jobs. As we come to week 2 of my blog series, I want to look more closely at payment hubs. I suspect that they are one of th...

18 March 2014 /payments

Real-Time Everything: Transaction Banking Greatness Week 1

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 cyclists are looking around and seeing how the competition compares. For a bank, this means how they compare to their peers and industry leaders, and for ...

10 March 2014 /payments

Taking Transaction Banking from good to great

We've reached a point in the banking industry where banks need to decide what they want to be. A small handful are the undisputed leaders in the global transaction banking market and are recognised as such around the world. But let's be honest, there are only a small number of institutions that can claim such a position. It's like a bicycle race wh...

04 March 2014