206 Results from 2009, /payments
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
Most of us have seen how small enterprises can be innovative, fast and agile - when larger ones show up as lumbering giants - trying desparately to cure themselves with new "management" tools. Long way to go before management is less about control and more about leading change. One reason for favoring large enterprises has been that the ...
08 November 2009 /payments
Retired Member
With a changing payments landscape, the very structure of banks seems to be a matter of great debate at the moment. On one side is the view of Governor of the Bank of England who believes that banks should be split into separate utility companies and risky ventures. The opposing view comes from the Group of 20, the Financial Stability Board and th...
05 November 2009 /payments /wholesale
In the old days bloodletting was considered to be a universal cure to diseases. Later when it was realised that it could have only negative effects it still continued for quite a while. Old habits die hard. There are many similar practises today and the guy sitting on the chair is a typical SME letting himself be subject to a plethora of painful r...
05 November 2009 /payments
Paul Love VP Business Development at Konsentus
Following the recent global downturn and the implications for consumer lending, credit card offerings have come under the spotlight like never before. In the United States, for example, new credit card regulations due in February 2010 are expected to eat into credit card issuers' revenue streams. This has led to whirlwind changes as issuers adapt...
04 November 2009 /payments
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
This comes direct from a PayPal press release, announcing that more than a dozen developers have created a new generation of applications built with the PayPal X global payments platform. Here's a sample from the early movers: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) worked with PayPal to support application payments in the Java Store Beta and enhan...
04 November 2009 /payments /retail Finance 2.0
I decided to write this after seeing a summary of Aite Group’s report concerning U.S. cardholders and their experience abroad. It states that “The promise of ubiquitous card payments acceptance falls apart once U.S. cardholders cross their national border” and “an issue caused by incompatible card technology is treated far more seriously by cardhol...
30 October 2009 /security /payments Business Knowledge for IT
It is evident - paper invoices will disappear from the business to business and business to government sectors and then later in practise also in the business to consumer/government to citizen area. The 5 mega-class reasons are exceptionally powerful and clear to see. Everyone will benefit - especially the consumers and tax payers. It is only a
30 October 2009 /payments /retail
Felitas Aguilar Global Account Manager at Dovetail Systems Ltd
Germany is, undoubtedly, a cash-focused society. Increasing the use of cashless payments methods in Germany will therefore require commitment from the banks and retailers involved. However, at present, many German retailers still ask their customers to pay with cash instead of using a card. Despite the costs and risk associated with the handling o...
29 October 2009 /payments
Five days to go and the SEPA Direct Debit start date is finally upon us, but is anyone in the industry taking any notice? As many have commented, it is not the ‘start dates’ but the ‘end dates’ that hold the most importance. The confusion about an end-date for legacy payment systems, and even a timeframe to set an end-date, has added to the lack ...
28 October 2009 /payments
I found this great analysis concerning this VSMR new release : http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=42938028 Another outrageous revenue projection "Based on the current $22B annual spend on in-bound remittance transfers in the Philippines today, the Company estimates a conservative one percent share of the market, g...
28 October 2009 /payments Asia Financial Services
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