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Bob Lyddon

Bob Lyddon Consultant at Lyddon Consulting Services

Wolfsberg Group should publish its Competition Law advice about its Country Risk FAQs, as a starter

We just sent the third and final call in our series to the Wolfsberg Group, this time regarding the “Country Risk – Frequently Asked Questions” that Wolfsberg issued in March 2018. We are asking that Wolfsberg put into the public domain the Competition Law advice it has taken about its governance and activities on a general level, to be followed by...

/payments Transaction Banking

Uri Rivner

Uri Rivner CEO and Co-Founder at Refine Intelligence

World Cup: When Russia plays, what happens to Global Cybercrime?

The World Cup! The largest, most anticipated sports event in the known universe. Millions of football fans are passionately supporting their national teams. But what are Cybercriminals doing in the mean time? Jumping their digital prey while the victims are following the football? Or rather rallying around the flag, supporting their national team a...

/payments /regulation Information Security

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The Bank of One: Taking personalisation to the ultimate level

The theory of the ‘Bank of One’ is well-rehearsed. Today’s tech-savvy consumers are demanding banking services tailored to their particular requirements. They see financial services as an enabler for other aspects of their lives, and they want their banks to deliver the products and advice they need in an efficient, timely way – matching their exp...

/payments /retail Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Marten Nelson

Marten Nelson Co-founder and CEO at M10

It’s time for a serious open banking standard

Steve Kirsch, CEO and Founder, Token There are four things that should now be crystal clear to everyone involved in open banking: 1. Open banking has arrived. It was the #1 topic at Money 20/20 Europe. Open banking regulations are now appearing in other parts of the world beyond the EU. 2. Open banking is so irresistible that even banks that ...

/payments Open Banking

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How PSD2 will influence the Corporate Banking Payments landscape for the better using Biometrics

Transaction processing for corporate banking operations are on a completely different scale to the retail-banking world in terms of both value and volume. The resultant revenues form one of the main profit drivers for banks and according to the 2017 Cap Gemini World Payments Report, it is estimated that there will be a staggering 108bn corporate ...

/payments Biometrics

Bob Lyddon

Bob Lyddon Consultant at Lyddon Consulting Services

UK New Payment System Operator - the wrong direction and we need a new one

The UK’s New Payment System Operator is well adrift of the problems facing UK payment service users (e.g. lack of access to free ATMs, high fees on card payments for merchants, dwindling cash collection services) but it continues to build up its elephantine governance structure, with committees popping up right, left and centre, and sporting impre...

/payments Transaction Banking

Hakan Eroglu

Hakan Eroglu Advisor at BIS Innovation Hub (all opinions are my own)

Quo vadis PSD2 RTS? A view on EBA’s recent Opinion Paper on RTS implementation

In combination, the EU’s Second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) – and the European Banking Authority’s (EBA’s) related Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) and Secure Open Standards of Communication (CSC) –profoundly impact banks' IT systems and business models. They open up banks’ systems to third-party p...

/payments Open Banking

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Collaboration: The key to customer stickiness

Competition has long been heralded as key to driving economies and industries forward. When firms compete, it’s believed that consumers get the best possible prices, quantity, and quality of goods and services. Despite this method being seen as the optimum for both sides, it’s actually proven detrimental to businesses looking to increase customer ...

/payments /inclusion Fintech

Jared Ronski

Jared Ronski Co-founder at MerchACT

Why Startups Need to Make Payments Experience a Priority

In 2017, U.S. online retail experienced the largest year to year growth since 2011, and ecommerce represented 13 percent of total retail sales. Clearly, consumers like shopping online, and that trend is only expected to grow. And if you’re a startup, it’s absolutely vital your payment experience is user-friendly: 75 percent of startups fail, and t...

/payments /startups Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

Anthony Hynes

Anthony Hynes Managing Director & CEO at eNett International

Tackling fraud in the travel industry

Travel and tourism now accounts for a staggering 10.2 percent of global GDP . And, where there is money, criminals will follow. Add to that the specific nature of travel transactions – high value one-off payments, rapid consumption and the sheer number of suppliers across the globe – and the travel sector is a huge target for fraud. Our new resea...

/payments /regulation

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