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Ben Poole Contributor at Finextra
The first morning of World Retail Congress 2014 in Paris featured a one-on-one interview conducted by the event’s founder and chairman, Ian McGarrigle, with Anne Cairns, president, International Markets at MasterCard. The title for the interview was ‘The Future Is Now, Are You Ready?’ Cairns began by highlighting just a few of the areas that have s...
29 September 2014 /payments
Retired Member
The timing of the UK Department of Health's adoption of PEPPOL ("Pan-European Public Procurement Online) may just help accelerate the economic recovery in EU member countries. With billions of euros tied up in supply chain paperwork, small and medium-sized businesses stand to benefit from faster, digitised procurement transactions. Among the ...
Bitcoin, a digital currency in place of the more traditional form, is being used more regularly by several firms that operate out of South America, the Latino Post reported. However, because of the tighter regulations being implemented, it's getting a lot of scrutiny. PropinaBitcoin is one of the companies that's aiming to provide consumers and or...
26 September 2014 /payments Electronic invoicing
Don’t be fooled by Bitcoin. It’s an early incarnation, an experiment, of something much bigger. Maybe even a new era. As of very recently – less than a generation - 100% of world wealth has a smart device. And those devices are always on, and always interconnected. That is a radically different environment from the one that begat our current archit...
25 September 2014 /payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Lu Zurawski founder, iKnowMe at Lu Zurawski
The acceptance of contactless bank cards by Transport for London (TfL) marks the end of a hugely successful and significant first phase for electronic ticketing and payments for the company. Despite hiccups on the way, large numbers of the general public have learned to love and accept the Oyster card. TfL deserves real praise for teaching us a n...
25 September 2014 /payments
Daniel Eckstein CEO at Abrantix AG
Everybody has been watching and waiting for the announcement that Apple will enter the payments market, and …… drum roll …. they’ve just announced Apple Pay! Cool name, but what is it and will it rock the payment industry? First the good news. With Apple, one of the biggest technology inventors has just entered the payment market. Along with the f...
Nasreen Quibria Managing Director & Founder at Q INSIGHTS
One of the biggest headaches that companies face today is the posting and reconciliation of payments. Details such as invoice number, customer account, and other key information that help explain the purpose of the payment often do not travel with the payment. In turn, this fragmented flow of remittance data leads to inefficiencies and errors rela...
24 September 2014 /payments /sibos
The Post Office’s foray into financial services is picking up pace. Building on the success of the Travel Money Card, it launched the Post Office Money Card - a prepaid MasterCard with support from Raphaels and First Rate. With over 17 million customers served per week, it’s quite a clever move for the Post Office to diversify its offerings and ca...
23 September 2014 /payments
Brazil’s status as one of the world’s most vibrant tiger economies is well known, but its hosting of a certain international football tournament this summer has further highlighted the region as being ripe with market opportunity. With the world’s eyes on the country, merchants looking to gain a foothold in Latin America have realised the potentia...
23 September 2014 /payments /retail
I recently read a very interesting article by Karen Webster regarding Apple and NFC payments, which after all was said done I came to the interesting conclusion that I believe Apple actually doesn’t give 2 hoots “whether it’s NFC or XYZ that powers payments, just that it all happens inside its ecosystem and that its platform is that which can both...
19 September 2014 /payments
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