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By Lina Andolf-Orup, Global Product Marketing Manager at Fingerprints As something of a Money 20/20 series veteran, having attended the Europe and Vegas editions several times, it was with great curio...
By Lina Andolf-Orup, Global Product Marketing Manager at Fingerprints Biometric smart cards are emerging as the next innovation in payment cards. According to ABI Research the payment card is here t
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The first generally useful application of Open Banking is here in the UK. While it will be some time yet before it gets much use, new organisations soon will be able to initiate payments between bank ...
The first Malaysian FinTech expo wrapped up recently, in the first week of March, 2018. If crowd size and the number of exhibitors are anything to go by, then one can safely assume that competition ...
Bitcoin’s price averaged $272 in 2015, $567 in 2016 and $4,001 in 2017. It peaked at just below $20,0000 in mid-December 2017. So far in 2018, as of mid-March, the average is just over $11,000. Bitcoi...
On 13th January 2018, the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) came into force. With it – amongst other rules, banks are will be required to open their systems to third-parties and provide interfa...
Open banking is not just for Europe, although many of us sitting in Europe probably think it is. Many other markets around the world have been noticing what Europe is up to and other countries and r...
Or maybe the headline should really read EU PSD2, open access APIs are not just for banks and the first thing we all need to be clear on is that UK open banking, that has been launched with the CAM9, ...
Money without Innovation Fiat money takes three forms - electronic deposits at commercial banks, banknotes (and coins) and central bank (CB) reserves. None of these are great starting points for innov...
The Threat of the Crypto-Whales, Why 2018 will be the Year of Regulation in the Cyberworld Whales are the largest animals on Earth, and many kinds of whales live from eating one of the smallest animal...
I was in Parliament the other week, in a Committee Room, listening to a lot of promises being made by the LINK ATM Network. The promises boil down to the claim by LINK that they will never let any tow...