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Guillaume Forget

Guillaume Forget Executive Vice President at Cryptomathic GmbH

The eIDAS regulation is coming. How can banks benefit?

As of 1st July 2016, the first phase of the EU's new regulation on electronic identification (eIDAS) will become enforceable. But amid all the confusion about its implications among both EU banking executives and their security experts, banks still have a lot to be excited about. The intent behind the Electronic Identification and Trust Services (...

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Greater visibility boosts profitability and performance

We’re all watching our pennies these days, especially in banking. The cost of capital is increasing while regulatory requirements become more demanding. Every decision about the viability of lines of business needs to be an informed one. An organisation can improve its offering, putting its pennies to work by evaluating the costs and returns associ...

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Biggest change to 3D Secure in a decade

EMVCo’s new development will utilize richer cardholder [and device] data during the transaction which will result in far fewer password interruptions as stated in this MasterCard press release. One of the biggest changes that cardholders will notice immediately is that the onerous registration process (seen in the traditional 3D Secure protocol) w...

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Konstantin Rabin

Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik

Three Sectors Lost By Banks

There were the times when banks had almost everything. They offered deposits, loans, cards, money transfers, currency exchange, insurances and so on. And the most compelling thing was that they had almost no or little competition. Unfortunately for banks, these times are over. New players on the market found their niches to challenge the big ones. ...

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Daniel Szmukler

Daniel Szmukler Director at EBA

Open APIs - the magical elixir?

Open APIs are finding their way into the payments industry. They often facilitate the customer driven ‘opening up’of banks to the outside world in a secure, scalable, reusable and self-service fashion, thereby crossing the internal borders of technology silos and business silos of banks. At EBAday 2016 the Electronic Alternative Payments Working G...

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You have the data: Now take control of business

We all know the age-old saying: “Knowledge is power.” It’s still true, perhaps more now than ever. I’ve noticed that the more data regulatory bodies require us to create and archive, the more access we have to new information about business, clients and assets. It’s time to make use of this vast repository of data to create a seismic shift in the ...

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In Praise of Cheques - A paper back-up for digital payments

Having seen the recent press headlines on delays in cheque imaging, I began to think about the role that cheques play in the UK payments market. Cheques have caused their fair share of controversy over the years. The failure in 2011 to manage the decline of cheques is often cited as one of the reasons for the removal of the UK Payments Council, a...

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Jeremy Light

Jeremy Light Co-founder at Fourdotzero

The Bitcoin Enigma - 12 questions to chew on

I am fascinated by Bitcoin. It gives a glimpse into the future architecture of money and finance, one that is very different to today. Understandably, the Banking industry dismisses it. Bitcoin has caught it off-guard, and it neither likes nor wants it. Instead, it is focussing on its underlying technology, the “blockchain”, “distributed ledger te...

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Mobile Vs Wallet: are traditional payments about to become obsolete?

The mobile phone has established itself as a crucial part of our daily lives, with over 34% of adults checking their phone within the first five minutes of waking up. A predicted 46 million smartphone users will exist in the UK alone by 2018, and the ever increasing capabilities of the smart phone continue to make it an essential tool for all consu...

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Jeremy Light

Jeremy Light Co-founder at Fourdotzero

Card payments v real-time ACH: a global battlefield

Global card transaction volumes outnumber global interbank payment volumes by a wide margin: approximately 206 bn txns v 108 bn txns per year (Accenture Research). Card transactions use almost universally the ISO8583 standard. This uniformity and ubiquity are a remarkable achievement, especially in comparison to the much lower volume interbank paym...

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