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Retired Member
In my last blog I looked at different revolutions that have impacted the manufacturing industry in the past, and what the payments industry can learn from them, specifically the use of interchangeable parts and mass production. In this piece I want to look at two more manufacturing trends, starting with Just-In-Time (JIT) manufacturing. The basic...
06 October 2010 /payments
Today we have seen the release of the PCI DSS take on PCI DSS Applicability in an EMV Environment: A Guidance Document. Today, we see my take on it … This document makes sense, provided one believes all of the nonsense upon which it is founded. If the foundations are weak the structure will tumble - stand back! This document refers throughout to
05 October 2010 /payments
Uri Rivner CEO and Co-Founder at Refine Intelligence
The bloodhounds are continuing to register notable victories over online crime rings. This time there were a massive series of arrests done in US, UK and other countries in relation to fraudsters spreading or cashing out on a major Zeus Trojan operation, which has been pestering US businesses for the past 18 months. In a clever multi-national inve...
04 October 2010 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
If Visa’s Payment Security Forum held in Cairo this week is anything to go by, Data Field Encryption projects certainly seem to be on the agenda for banks in the Middle East, Africa, and Eastern Europe. More than 95% of those responding to a quick poll at the conference said they were either considering, evaluating, or were actively engaged in Da...
30 September 2010 /security /payments Information Security
Throughout its life, the manufacturing industry has gone through many changes that have each revolutionized the way products are made. Consider the principle of using uniform and interchangeable parts, rather than every element being unique. By being able to easily replace and reuse parts, manufacturers could make their processes more efficient, w...
30 September 2010 /payments
Alexander Mifsud Co-Founder and CEO at Weavr.io
The recent Finextra webcast on retail banking innovation caused some a debate from various industry experts. The general consensus seemed to be that banks are severely constrained in terms of how much information they can share about innovation: The mania to protect intellectual property and reputation means that innovation teams are constrained f...
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
DG Infosoc is gearing up activities under the Digital Single Market headline. When this is being rolled out it is important to ask the question: Why? The obvious answers are that large scale x-sector digitalization is: 1. making enterprises more competitive as (i) they become more cost-efficient, (ii) serve their customer better (digitally), (iii)...
29 September 2010 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
David Divitt Senior Fraud Product Manager at VocaLink
The recent announcement of the multi-channelled Zeus attack on a user's internet banking account is an interesting hypothesis and surely will not be the last when it comes to beating the ever advancing online banking systems. The attack method currently seems to use the mobile phone as a forwarding device for any one time password that is delivere...
27 September 2010 /security /payments
I went to a book publishing party yesterday. Wonderful book about interior design and life by extraordinary personality. Lots of cultural types around and good food. And as I am kind of known as Mr. e-Invoicing the accountant present came up to me with his story – which went like this: He: “ The migration to e-invoicing has not been easy. Lots of ...
25 September 2010 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Previously on “Why don’t you become” (here): people put their money in wallets (be those banks, or just stashes). Networks then pierce a hole in these wallets and create a widespread network that allows money to be transferred easily (cash in the stash case but we also have credit, electronic checks, credit cards and mobile phones. I don’t mean c
22 September 2010 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
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