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Bo Harald

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

ATM transactions heading south

Accelerating decline in use of cash clearly reflected here and in card transaction statistics in Finland (even without costs being visibly charged for ATM withdrawals..). Good news for all. On EU level the cost of cash usage was estimated to some 50bn€ some years ago - and the consumer pays 100% of it + some profit margins for the service prov...

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Bo Harald

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

e-invoicing ice hockey stick

It took time to get it going - but this is looking good (statistics covers only Finvoice - similar growth in other local standards). In a couple of years time paper or e-mailed PDF invoices will be as rare as cheques (defacto not used since years). More interesting statistics here: http://www.fkl.fi/en/material/statistics/Statistics/Statistics_bank...

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Bo Harald

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

e-id services and e-commerce payments 2010 in Finland

Excellent growth figures - on EU levels the e-id volume would be 1,5bn. All public sector id-transactions are presently done by banks. This is extremely cost efficient (economy of reuse) and naturally preferred by citizens - as the tool (one-time code) is so familiar (economy of repetition and secure (economy of trust). Difficult to understand why...

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Bo Harald

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

Amazing e-banking growth - again

I would have thought the transaction growth would have petered out in Finland - when most customers have used it for years - and now there are 5,2m e-banking contracts (a population of 5,4m and some probably are prepared to pay for several) - but still a 40m - 11% growth. EU-equivalent of payments would be some 28bn.. More interesting statistics h...

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Banking Relationships in today's world

The recent report by the ICB on banking in the UK underlined a major factor missing in today's world - the need to increase competition across the various services that our banks offer. It reminded me of the countless situations I have encountered where the customers' search for value has resulted in a new choice of bank, despite having a relatio...

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Europe making headway against card skimming

The European ATM Security Team (EAST) reported last week that fraud is in overall decline at European ATMs – good news for the industry and testament to the investment that has been made in the migration to EMV to date. In the UK, there is also a growing consumer awareness of skimming and the need to protect your PIN at ATM and PoS terminals which...

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Epsilon Breach Demands New Best Practices

The recent Epsilon breach that exposed millions of email addresses has the potential to create a very big problem for all email marketers and will demand development of new best practices in the world of email marketing. It is of particular importance for banks and brokerages with a retail facing business, as these organizations are the most likel...

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Bo Harald

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

Real Time Economy presentation

http://streams.metropolia.fi/old/MultimediaTech2010/bo_harald_1/

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Ketharaman Swaminathan

Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions

Shift From Credit To Debit And Prepaid Cards

The last year has been awash with news and analyst reports about how American consumers are forsaking credit cards and increasingly using debit and prepaid cards. Given that credit cards are a “pay after” instrument as against debit and prepaid cards that are “pay now” and “pay before” instruments respectively, pundits have concluded that the sh

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Creating the Business Case for Payment Execution Outsourcing

Simply put, payment execution is the process of initiating payments, whether by check, ACH, wire or card. Increasingly, companies are looking to outsource this portion of their A/P processing. Payment initiation is time consuming, labor intensive and expensive (in the case of checks) and certainly meets the definition of a non-core business func...

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