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January 13 was the deadline for the much-anticipated Second Payment Services Directive, or PSD2, to become national law in EU Member States. In the UK, PSD2 was implemented within the 2017 Payment Ser...
There’s a lot about TESLA’s way of doing business I admire; especially when I think about what it could bring to the world of financial technology. I don’t mean a banking system powered by lithium-ion...
Now that the floor is nearly open for true open banking in Europe as a result of the passing of the PSD2 kick off date this Sunday, observers sit tight to see the scene unfold. Will we be enjoying a D...
This week, the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) will overhaul the European payments landscape. The new legislation will essentially force banks to open up their data, allowing third party prov...
2018 will be all about Digital Identity. I am sure everyone is aware that the revised EU Payment Services Directive (known as PSD2) comes into force later on this week. Within the new PSD2 regulation...
A key measure of the size of the Bitcoin network is the hash rate*, the combined computing power of the miners operating the network. If the value of a network is dependent on its size, we should expe...
This is the fourth and final one of our four predictions for the Payments industry in 2018, and it is about the global Remittances business. We all know that this area has been badly hit by “de-riskin...
Over more than a decade now we have seen the launch of mobile wallets and prepaid cards, the high hopes for them and an often lukewarm response from the customer, followed by a phased withdrawal. I ha...