5101 Results from /payments
Charmaine Oak Co-Founder/Director at Shift Thought Ltd
In honour of Canada Day today, I fell to thinking about how mobile payments may be able to help folk lead happier lives, for instance by providing more opportunities to enjoy things exactly the way we like them, through the great things technology can now do for us. Chances are if you live in Canada you will probably already be waving you card to ...
01 July 2015 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Ganesh Guruvayur Senior Vice President, Head, Hub Solutions at Intellect Design Arena
The glaringly average record on regulatory compliance front is beginning to be bugbear for banks. While the big banks usually are well equipped to take the onslaught of the ever changing regulatory regimes, it is the mid and small tier banks that get caught unawares and unprepared. Regulatory conformity is more often seen to be the premise of the ...
29 June 2015 /payments /regulation
Retired Member
After evaluating lots of candidates, burning the midnight oil, I’m proud to publish, what I think is the world’s first Periodic Table of Remittances (Money Transfer). The table provides a glance into the Remittances world and the players who are prominent. The table can be shared as long as the the original table is untouched and due credit is give...
27 June 2015 /payments /retail
The Faster Payments Scheme Limited has worked hard to understand the access challenges to Faster Payments, and they’ve discovered two distinct groups of users: those requiring Immediate/ Real Time payments for their customers, and those needing Same-Day (Value-Dated) payments for their customers. The Scheme believes the New Access Model will appe...
26 June 2015 /payments /retail Innovation in Financial Services
I took a trip to one of London’s major retail outlets last Tuesday, there wasn’t anything particularly unusual about my trip but an unplanned excursion to the men’s accessory section sparked a glaring realisation. I had intended the purpose of my trip to Oxford Street to be the purchase of a new shirt; a poorly fastened coffee cup lid had led to th...
26 June 2015 /payments
Financial services can be a risky business. For corporate treasurers it is listed as yet another of their “key priorities”, particularly as they become more involved in the strategic decision making processes within their organisations. Risk is linked to many factors over which business has anything from some to little or no control, for example...
26 June 2015 /payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Another week, another FinTech event. It seems our industry has more events than most. Last week was MoneyConf in Belfast, and this post provides my observations from that event as well as some thoughts on what is needed for greater industry progress. MoneyConf focuses on the future of payments, eCommerce, cryptocurrencies and financial servic
24 June 2015 /payments
What’s in a wristband – will wearables prevent heart attacks and help manage money better? If we thought smartphones allowed for constant access to information, wearables allow for instantaneous access to constant information. With little more than a glance at the wrist, wearers can read an email, check their vital signs or make a payment. With th...
Technological developments are often greeted with a mixture of excitement and cynicism. Mobile payments are no different. Amongst all the hype and bluster, however, a fundamental question seems to be largely overlooked – why use mobile payments? Here are just a few reasons to leave your cash and card at home, and pay with your mobile. Mobile payme...
This year, Mobey Forum celebrates 15 years since its inception in 2000. From humble beginnings, the association has survived and flourished where other similar organisations have faded. In this blog, we talk to Mobey’s first Chairman, Bo Harald, and current Chairman, Jordi Guaus, to see how the organisation has evolved, the successes it has achiev...
22 June 2015 /payments
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