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A Finextra Member

A Summary from Singapore: Takeaways from the First Money 2020 Asia

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...

27 Mar 2018
Fintech
A Finextra Member

Biometric Payment Cards - Where are we now?

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

27 Mar 2018
Fintech
Jeremy Light

The Battleground for the Consumer Experience - Opened up by Open Banking

On 25 March 2018, a Quantas 787-9 Dreamliner touched down at Heathrow airport to inaugurate a new non-stop service between Australia and London. It cut a full three hours off the normal 20 hour journe...

26 Mar 2018
Disruption in Retail Banking
Gavin Scruby

Does Open Banking mean the end of card payments?

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 ...

25 Mar 2018
Trends in Financial Services
A Finextra Member

Key Takeaway from Malaysia's First FinTech Expo

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 ...

20 Mar 2018
Asia Financial Services
Jeremy Light

Bitcoin at 50,000 USD?

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...

19 Mar 2018
Innovation in Financial Services
Hakan Eroglu

Choosing the right PSD2 API standard out of the Berlin Group NextGenPSD2 API framework

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...

18 Mar 2018
Open Banking
Brendan Jones

The World of Open Banking

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...

12 Mar 2018
Banking Regulations
Brendan Jones

EU Open Banking is not just for banks

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, ...

12 Mar 2018
Banking Regulations
Jeremy Light

Powering Up a Crypto-Cash Society with Central Bank Money

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...

12 Mar 2018
Innovation in Financial Services
Chris Principe

Threat of the Crypto-Whales

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...

06 Mar 2018
Digital Asset Class (DAC)
Ron Delnevo

LINK : can Nicky Morgan be a Genuine Consumer Champion?

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...

06 Mar 2018
Financial Services Regulation

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