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Jeremy Light

Jeremy Light Co-founder at Fourdotzero

Ethereum - A Blockchain for Banks? A Challenger to Bitcoin?

At Sibos 2014, in Boston, I found myself at the Innotribe forum watching a presentation from Vitalik Buterin, one of the founders of the Ethereum blockchain who had the original idea and vision. He was then only 20 years old, and the audience was spellbound. His is the only business presentation I have ever seen displaying computer code - and only...

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Cash is queen - green, but not quite king

The road from cash and cash registers to #NextGenPOS with integrated payments Payments providers and NextGenPOS software providers together offer merchants a great way to control their income and manage their business. Yet their biggest competition, the status quo of cash and cash registers, still has the upper hand in the small merchant market se...

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PSD2 - FUTURE BUSINESS MODELS AND STRATEGIES FOR BANKS

**Many of the sessions at this years Money20/20 were about Fintech and Banking collaboration. Here's our take on how this is likely to look in the run up to PSD2 coming into effect** The PSD2 requirements have been absorbed, timelines understood and API transformation programs been kicked-off. So, what next? With a deluge of regulations that thr...

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Vinod Sharma

Vinod Sharma CTO - FinTech Domain at Econet Wireless Zimbabwe

Digitised Bank Payments - Their Struggle Saga with Friend FinTech

Abstract – This article is neither a conclusion nor a claim by any means this is just an assumption and current picture focused on African markets. Idea for this write up is to explorer, read, enjoy, deliberate and put suggestions or new thoughts/ideas on table offcourse comments in agreement/disagreement are welcome. The evolution of financial sys...

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Bernd Richter

Bernd Richter SVP - FIS Impact Ventures at FIS

PSD2 What SHOULD It Stand For?

We all know the official definition: Payments Services Directive 2, but we should be looking at ‘alternative versions’. “Perfect Storm Digital 2”, “Premier Service Driver 2”, “Paradigm Shift Dynamic 2”? OK, they may never catch on as advertising slogans. But they all go some way to capturing the sense of excitement and opportunity that should be a...

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A Tale of Two Wallets

Wallets, or purses, have been around since bartering was replaced by the exchange of goods for currency of whatever variety. Therefore they were handy means of carrying that currency in case you needed to ‘buy’ something on your travels. Centuries, if not millennia, have passed and we are now in the electronic, or digital, age. The wallet and/or p...

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Saurabha Sahu

Saurabha Sahu Senior Solution Consultant at Wipro Limited

Will SWIFT be replaced by Blockchain?

SWIFT has become the backbone of the financial market from 1973. SWIFT has proven the scalability, security, resilience and created the history that is the trust in the network. SWIFT has provided a network for financial institutions to send and receive information about financial transactions in a secure, standardized and reliable environment. Th...

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Vinod Sharma

Vinod Sharma CTO - FinTech Domain at Econet Wireless Zimbabwe

Fintech : The BaaP and BaaS Boomer

Abstract : Fintech or Financial technology, is an industry combining and grouping companies that are making financial services including insurance services more efficient and advanced; with use of technology. Companies coming in FinTech domain are startups founded with the purpose of disrupting incumbent financial systems and corporations that rel...

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Enter the 'droid: How UK retailers can win by supporting Android Pay

It’s that time again. Nine months after we were poised at the brink of the launch of Apple Pay, we are now all agog for the latest mobile payment method to step into the arena – Android Pay. This comes with a flurry of anticipation, and rightly so. Android is used by 54% of the smartphone-owning population. And, unlike Apple Pay, which is restricte...

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5 Innovations to Watch in Cross-Border Payments

The year is off to a dynamic start in the cross-border payments industry, leading many to ask: What’s ahead for the next 9 months? Innovations are being shaped by the exponential adoption of the Internet, changing business models powered by technology and user demands of speed and ease. Here are five innovations driven by these trends in 2016. 1) ...

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