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India - playing by the rules of Fraud Club?

The first step to solving a problem is to admit you have a problem. I have been involved with card fraud systems for over 20 years and too many times when I have discussed fraud I’ve been greeted with the opening line “of course we don’t have a fraud problem here” I was struck when seeing some fraud statistics for 2012 released by RBI for India ho...

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To mandate or not to mandate?

The UK government is encouraging the use of e-invoicing across all central government transactions. Mandating will be considered as a possibility, if it’s seen as an effective way to spread best practice. From our perspective encouraging e-invoicing is a great step. It will support the government’s wider aim to help SMEs grow and compete for publi...

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EMV's No Silver Bullet for NFC

NFC fanatics are anxiously awaiting the EMV liability shift in hopes the card networks’ mandates will drive NFC adoption at the point-of-sale (PoS). While many are already heralding EMV as NFC’s savior in mobile payments, it’s far too early for celebrations to ensue. Yankee Group expects the EMV liability shift will have a profound impact on NFC...

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Will 2014 be the year that mobile payments succeed?

2011...2012...2013… each have been touted as the year that mobile payments will reach a tipping point, yet it would seem that adoption is lagging behind the news hype, at least in the UK. While mobile banking is now mainstream and accepted (even demanded for by some consumers), we just don’t seem to have taken to mobile payments at the point of sal...

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Payment Factories and Cash Visibility-Part 2

In my last blog, I examined how a Payment Factory can help improve global cash visibility across an organisation. Now I would like to examine that in a little more detail. I discussed how banks connected to SWIFT will send out MT940 messages (end-of-day account statements), which can be forwarded on to the different back office systems. That leads...

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Making sense of 'Clinkle' noise

It was hard for anyone who followed mobile payments to miss the headlines about Clinkle, a Silicon Valley startup headed by the CEO who raised more millions that his age. Getting $25m in SEED money from such top names as Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Intel, Intuit and Peter Thiel warrants attention, so let's peak under the hood of that (not so) myst...

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Card Acceptance Matters - Part 2

In part I of my “Card Acceptance Matters” blog article, I discussed the high-level results of research conducted by MasterCard and Kaiser Associates, and the finding that card acceptance can lead to increased purchasing volumes per customer. In this article, we’ll take a look at how card acceptance can lead to greater revenue consistency. Paying ...

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The future desirability of a Cashless Society

There is no stopping the evolution to a cashless society. It will be a convergence of the internet, credit and debit cards that have Visa PayWave & MasterCard PayPass, American Express cards that have ExpressPay, and a smart phone that can be used in much the same way as a physical wallet is used, only with virtual examples of credit or debit ...

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Mobile payments: and the winner is...

Hailo. Whilst hundreds of companies in the payments space are racing to solve the nonexistent problems (or, at the very least, problems which neither the consumer nor the merchant care much about), Hailo offered a great solution without even inventing anything. In fact, payment was a pleasant side-effect of their core product. Hail a cab using Hai...

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Is PCI a white elephant?.. Or is Dave Birch wrong?..

The most frequently cited and referenced part of PCI DSS relates to protection of cardholder data, mainly card number (PAN), cardholder's name and card expiration date. Now, Dave Birch of Consult Hyperion (one of the leading consultancies in the payments industry) as well as Mark Austin, head of contactless at Visa Europe, are saying that the info...

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