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Key security considerations for home and mobile workers In many cases executive IT and security professionals trust their Information Security departments to provide adequate security to protect empl...
Rumours have been rife over the past month about a potential deal between Google and PayPal that would see the latter powering the payment system on the Android Market. Last week an announcement about...
http://www.swift.com/resources/documents/supply_trade_article_casterman_opinion.pdf André Casterman of SWIFT makes a good case for it in the enclosed article.
For most of us it is self-evident that unstructured invoicing is an anachronistic relic that will soon be history. It is also obvious that the solution to getting the enterprise mass market and consum...
The first recent test was to find an automatic non-political tool - steering member states away from overspending and overborrowing. The test was passed with flying colors – but was put aside (for a w...
Governments across the world provide subsidies for various activities. Most countries provide farm subsidies; education, health and even fuel is subsidised through government largesse. Now, to promote...
As a key theme for Sibos, there is a lot of discussion about the impact of regulations, and the unexpected consequences that all too often accompany new rules. The BASEL III focus has been on ensuring...
The challenges of regulation for SEPA were made clear in the "SEPA 2010" session at Sibos today when the European Commission declared that "moving from self-regulation to regulation is ...
It's very interesting to see that Southern Africa plans a SEPA-style payments harmonisation, and that they consider that learning from the experience in Europe could be very useful. Something that imm...
If I was to identify one dominant response from bankers at SIBOS this week it is confusion. Not confusion over the event, where to find sessions, or what they are doing here, but confusion over where ...
Over the last couple of weeks, we have been running a short poll on the ACI website to ask peoples’ views on payment systems in advance of Sibos, and the results are now in. We asked respondents what ...
It's Monday morning and everything is really getting started. Every last t has been crossed and i dotted. With that in mind, there is just time to take a look at the third and final theme that delegat...