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Pat Carroll

Pat Carroll Founder/Executive Chairman at ValidSoft

Looking back at 2012 and ahead to 2013

On data breaches and forms of attack: resistance is futile In 2012, we have seen an increasing number of sophisticated attacks made on a range of organisations in an attempt to capture consumer information. In 2013 we should not only expect such attacks to escalate in terms of frequency and significance, but for traditional defence technologies t...

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The future of payments is more than payments

Despite a few technical changes that have occurred in recent years, until now the traditional payments landscape hasn’t changed much since the first payment card was introduced a few decades ago. The Point-of-Sale (POS) has largely retained its primary focus of allowing retailers to accept and collect payments from consumers. This is rapidly chang...

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South-south trade - the elephant herd in the room.

The Ancient Mayans predicted that the world will end on 21st December 2012. While some of us may laugh at those stocking up on the non-perishables or forgoing Christmas shopping, the Mayans – who considered themselves a developed economy – may have been on to something. While booming markets in Africa, India, Asia and South America delight global ...

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iPhone 5S and NFC

NFC World ran an article on 5S "likely" to have NFC, citing investment bank Jefferies who said that "based on our checks, likely updates include a new super HD camera/screen, a better battery, and NFC." I wonder what those "checks" were... Supply chain inventory? Design drawings? Or details of Apple's commercial model...

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Ketharaman Swaminathan

Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions

CTS-2010: Cheque Truncation Or Contract Termination System?

There has been a spate of ads and announcements over the last 3-4 weeks by banks in India about the introduction of the new Cheque Truncation System, CTS-2010, from the new year. For the uninitiated, CTS transforms cheque clearing from a paper-intensive to a digital process whereby only images of cheques move between the payer bank, payee bank a...

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Understanding Health Care EFT Standards

On March 23, 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was signed into law. Section 1104 of the PPACA requires the adoption of operating rules for health care electronic funds transfers (EFT) and electronic remittance advice (ERA) transactions. The goal of section 1104 is to reduce the administrative burden on healthcare provi...

/payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

Elizabeth Lumley

Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted

Adventures in cash...less?

In New York, in the early 1990s, there was a spate of serial robberies where muggers specifically targeted young Puerto Rican bus boys walking home late at night (or early morning) after a shift at a restaurant. Why, you ask? Why did the Gotham thieves target bus boys - as opposed to mailmen or trash collectors or late night revellers or any other ...

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My predictions for 2013

Some of my regular followers here at Finextra were curious as to why I have not been blogging lately. I normally write about practical and relevant issues, and it's getting harder and harder for me to do that without stepping on some NDA here or there. Also, several companies are now shifting their focus to our main playing field, and I don't want ...

/payments Innovation in Financial Services

Andre Malinowski

Andre Malinowski Head of International Business at Computop GmbH

Expanding Your Global Footprint into Brazils Booming Economy

With the increasing complexity of the world’s consumer markets, businesses face various challenges when it comes to expanding their footprint into the different corners of the world. Diverse government structures, unique social and business cultures, and an ever-changing array of legal requirements and compliance policies make it difficult to over...

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Bo Harald

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

Letter to Santa Claus - reissued

Europe 17.12.2008 Dear Santa, We have been really nice, technology-neutral and hardworking Experts this year and look forward to You bringing us a few presents to play around with in 2009. The first wish is a book - more precisely a handbook. We namely wrote a letter to the EU Commission in July and asked for Equal Treatment of paper and e-invoici...

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