186 Results from 2017, /payments
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Good Help is so Hard to Come by After All As of the writing of this article, the popular recruiting site Indeed.com returned 1745 search results for the query “Data Scientist Financial Services” (If you’re in data science, hang with us for a second before you scurry over there). Google returns pages upon pages of results when prompted to find the ...
31 March 2017 /payments /regulation Financial Risk Management
Following on from the UK’s decision to introduce new coins, there has been a lot of debate around the value of the expensive change over. So much so, that many have looked at whether we would have been wiser to increase the security and adoption of contactless payment methods and digital currency, than investing in a declining payment method – cas...
31 March 2017 /security /payments Trends in Financial Services
Targeting a frictionless future for business Karen Bradley, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport, vowed earlier this month to develop a world-leading digital economy that works for everyone, making the UK the best place in the world to start and grow a digital business. But does this pledge go far enough to allow the FinTech indus...
29 March 2017 /payments Trends in Financial Services
Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions
I had to pay college fees of INR 300,000 (~US$ 4615). The college supported an array of digital and paper-based payment options viz. Digital: Log in to college website, use college’s ePayment Gateway and pay by Credit Card. Paper: Demand Draft. I evaluated the pros and cons of both options. DIGITAL PAYMENT Pros: Credit card reward points: 3000 (@ ...
28 March 2017 /payments /regulation
Lu Zurawski founder, iKnowMe at Lu Zurawski
Today's introduction of the new one pound coin has nudged me into contemplation. Isn't it a bit weird that our that society still relies on increasingly complicated metal disks as a way of exchanging value? How deeply rooted is cash in our society? Is it ever likely to be replaced completely by electronic money? A quick consideration of amusement a...
28 March 2017 /payments /retail
Anthony Walton CEO at Iliad Solutions
APIs are one of the most talked about topics in the industry. They present a new way of working which can speed up development and increase the amount of features and applications available to new product development teams, as well as exposing services to partners, and even in some cases competitors. I believe that APIs are going to be among the k...
27 March 2017 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Good things come to those who wait, and the good news for those who have been waiting for the UK to roll out its image-based cheque clearing system is that the end - or more appropriately the beginning - is finally in sight. The details can be found in this helpful article that outlines the UK's intention to roll out the system this October. For t...
24 March 2017 /payments
My physical wallet is useful - it helps me store a number of valuables and memories but it is dumb. It doesn't know anything about me. Ironically, we are creating the equivalent in digital or mobile wallets in spite of the fact that digital wallets have the potential to be more intelligent, understand our preferences, and provide contextual help a...
16 March 2017 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
There has been a flurry of excitement since the publication of the EBA’s draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on 23rd February 2017. While there is much to consider within its 153 pages, the focus of this blog is on Article 16 and the new Transaction Risk Analysis approach to exempting transactions from Strong Customer Authentication (SCA)....
14 March 2017 /payments /regulation Financial Services Regulation
Given the possibility of the upcoming UK's withdrawal from the EU, Lithuania has offered an interesting proposal for licensing of payment institution. The Lithuanian regulator proposes to issue payment licenses under accelerated program to all claiming companies already having similar licenses in the UK. With such kind of insurance in case of Brexi...
14 March 2017 /payments /regulation
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