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Bob Lyddon

Bob Lyddon Consultant at Lyddon Consulting Services

Call for the withdrawal of Wolfsberg Group guidance on SWIFT Relationship Management Application

Occasioned by the recent Financial Standards Board reports on Correspondent Banking and on Remittances, I am of the opinion that Wolfsberg Group's 2016 “Wolfsberg Guidance on SWIFT Relationship Management Application (RMA) Due Diligence” should be withdrawn. I have sent a paper to the Wolsfberg Group to this effect. The guidance has given a clean b...

/payments Trends in Financial Services

Domenico Scaffidi

Domenico Scaffidi Payments Industry Expert -CEO & Founder at DS Payments Ltd

The Next Stage Real-Time Evolution is Here

Fragmentation resulting from multiple Pan European Immediate Payments schemes is a challenge but solutions exist We are facing a proliferation of Pan EU Instant Payment Services in Europe. Most industry players and experts are aware of the dangers of fragmentation and the reasons why this issue needs to be addressed. Even though the new schemes ...

/payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

Varun Maggon

Varun Maggon Senior Business Consultant at CustomerXPs Software Pvt. Ltd.

Countering Remittance Frauds with an Enterprise-wide Fraud Management Approach

Cybercrime continues to be an unending botheration for banks. While the focus of attempts and attacks until recently, tended to be on the banks’ customers (via card and account detail compromises), of late fraudsters have become more sophisticated and have raised the stakes. They have shifted their focus and are now directly targeting banks. They ...

/payments /regulation Transaction Fraud Systems and Analysis

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Real-Time Forensics: Effective Strategies to Combat Payments Fraud

The wave of payments fraud that continues to sweep the globe shows no signs of receding, leaving the financial services community anxiously in search of reliable ways to stay one step ahead. Just as payment processing becomes faster, so too are the cyber attackers moving quickly to find new ways to compromise sensitive data, transactions, and infr...

/security /payments Transaction Fraud Systems and Analysis

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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 curiosity and even greater expectations that I set off to the first Asian event. Held in Singapore, the event had many of the same faces – the giant Techs,...

/payments Fintech

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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 to stay and fingerprint authentication within the card is the next natural evolution to retain convenience while increasing security. So, let’s take a

/payments Fintech

Jeremy Light

Jeremy Light Co-founder at Fourdotzero

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 journey. In the commoditised world of air travel, that is a game-changer. Differentiating from the competition has been a challenge for the airline industry...

/payments Disruption in Retail Banking

Gavin Scruby

Gavin Scruby CIO at SmartDebit

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 accounts on a consumer’s behalf. This creates a new layer between consumers and banks, hopefully spawning novel ideas and services. Moving the centre...

/payments Trends in Financial Services

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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 for the PayTech market in Malaysia is absolutely intense. The expo was teeming with both local and global players offering e-wallet software. The even...

/payments Asia Financial Services

Jeremy Light

Jeremy Light Co-founder at Fourdotzero

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. Bitcoin’s price has risen exponentially, as has interest in it from regulators, speculators, developers, innovators, economists, journalists, bloggers and ...

/payments Innovation in Financial Services

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