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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Cutting administrative costs in half

Innovations always take time. Also in the case of e-invoicing. A few observations: - e-banking took time - and typically some actors lost faith (did not jump on the bandwagon or went passive) halfway down to the ice-hockey stick effect) - ice-hockey stick effects are next to omni-present in innovations - and now there has been a long break in real ...

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Mobile - First you'll get one - then...

By 2014, mobile and Internet technology will help over 3 billion of the world's adults to electronically transact. Emerging economies will see increase in mobile and Internet adoption through 2014. Worldwide mobile penetration rate will get to 90%. - "Gartner's Top Predictions for IT Organizations and Users, 2010 and Beyond: A New Balance&quo...

/payments Innovation in Financial Services

Nick Ogden

Nick Ogden Chairman at Ogden Research

A solution to online fraud is necessary

News out this week suggests that online spending is on the rise with Brits spending £38billion online last year and the expectation that this trend will only increase in 2010. However, with opportunity comes threat and it’s fair to say the security surrounding online payments is a major issue that can no longer be ignored for all concerned. Recen...

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Keith Appleyard

Keith Appleyard IT Consultant at available for hire

Beware e-mails from HMRC offering you a Tax Rebate

Fraudsters are sending out thousands of tax refund 'phishing' emails following the 31st January tax deadline, according to HM Revenue & Customs. The email asks you to input your credit card or bank details into an online form, so that the rebate can be paid to you. But if you provide your details, your bank account will be emptied or your credi...

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Elizabeth Lumley

Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted

The trouble with payments

Last week four bank experts sat down with Lee Fulmer of IBM to discuss the intended and un-intended consequences of the Payment Services Directive, as part of Finextra ongoing FinextraLive webcast series. Amongst the 75 minutes of lively chat, our panel grappled with the idea that payments might be more trouble than it's worth for some banks. Micha...

/payments /retail EBAday

Paul Love

Paul Love VP Business Development at Konsentus

Where next for contactless?

In the last week or so we have seen announcements from PKO Bank Polski and Intesa Sanpaolo about their plans to roll out contactless to their customers, with PKO Polski reporting that 6 million cards will be replaced in the project. However, there do seem to be mixed views in the market about the short to medium term growth of contactless. While so...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

e-banking high up

What are Internet users doing on the net? A new study (Redera) produced the following for Finland: - looking for information 97% - e-banking 95% - customer feedback 76% - public sector services 71% - shopping 70% - inquiries (about merchandi...

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Steven Murdoch

Steven Murdoch Royal Society University Research Fellow at University College London

Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode

This week, the 2010 Financial Cryptography conference is being held in Tenerife. The papers to be presented are likely of interest to the Finextra audience. Unfortunately, most are not available online, but searching for the title might show up a copy on the authors' home page. My paper at FC'10 is on the security of Verified by Visa and MasterCard...

/security /payments Information Security

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Drawing internal buy in for improved Risk management

After my latest posts about risk management (identity management basics and getting the best out of your data) I was asked a great question I think about every day: it's great to have a methodology and a strategy, but how do you get other people in the organization (whether inside or outside of the risk management group) to agree and work with yo...

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Mobile payments - a tale of princes, laws and treasures

In the previous post we've looked at mobile payments in a glance, why there's a huge chance today and what are the biggest challenges. In this post I will start diving deeper into them, and suggest a few ideas. There's a group of very talented guys I know, who used to work at this IT Company in Israel that was a part of the mobile industry. They ...

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