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Benjamin Thorpe

Benjamin Thorpe Director at Glory

Why Monitor an Attended Device?

Everywhere you look these days someone, somewhere, is monitoring something; CCTV on the streets, speed cameras on roads, entry and exit cameras in car parks, even your location via your Smartphone Apps, the list is endless. Not surprisingly that list includes the ATM you walk up to when you need cash; how else will someone know that it needs more ...

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Neil Clarke

Neil Clarke Business Development Director at Volante Technologies

Central Banking Market Infrastructures move to ISO 20022

Real time gross settlement (RTGS) has now become the established mechanism by which country and sometimes regional payment infrastructures enable safe settlement of high value payments between banks. Historically the systems have typically used the SWIFT network for the secure transfer of the payment messages and notifications, etc., with the

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Thea George

Thea George 

Corporates need payments innovation too

In all the excitement about consumer payments innovation, are businesses being left behind? Their payments teams stuck with clunky, ill-designed user interfaces and processing times laughable by contrast with mobile apps and Faster Payments? Sadly yes, to a point, concluded panelists during the closing session of Bottomline Technologies' recent cus...

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Steve Cook

Steve Cook Digital Identity & Biometrics Consultant

The Changing Face of Mobile Payments

You cannot fail to notice that biometrics is having an impact everywhere! From access control systems to mobile banking and in particular it is likely to be facial recognition that will have the greatest impact over the next ten years. According to research firm Tractica; facial recognition adoption will grow from 28.5 million mobile devices in 20...

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Prepaid Instruments : Catalyst to Cashless Journey

Recently published World Payments Report 2015 talked about the contribution of prepaid cards/wallets in Singapore’s journey towards Cashless economy. Over the period of time prepaid instruments have become a force to recon weather its in m-pesa in Kenya or in Singapore or Sweden or US wherein 23 million adults use them regularly. Author believes p...

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Sibos 2015: The View from Singapore

The Asia Pacific region is a growing hub for innovation in global financial services, driven by initiatives such as Singapore's FinTech & Innovation Group (FTIG). Mobile banking and payments are growing considerably worldwide, but analysts predict the most significant impacts are occurring in Asia, which is frequently a test market for new tec...

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Key takeaways from World Payments Report 2015

Capgemini Consulting and RBS recently released WPR 2015 it is quite comprehensive study of the manner in which payments industry is growing globally. Below mentioned is my takeaway (Also added a few points from my side) from the report. 1. Asia is the driver of Global Non Cash transaction Growth: Global Volume’s reached 357.9 billion (2013) 2. Bank...

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Payment Trends and Their Implications for National Payment Infrastructures

The payments world is both complex and complicated: Complex because of the many different parts that need to come together to facilitate the movement of value; and Complicated because the parts are interconnected both domestically and globally. New technologies, new payment entrants, end-user client demands, and the move to global standards are d...

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Kirsty Berry

Kirsty Berry Head of Product Marketing & Market Analytics at Compass Plus

Putting a nail in the cashless society advocate’s coffin

Now, don’t get me wrong, I am a fan of all payment methods - I believe there is a place in society for each of them. I am particularly enamoured with my contactless card, and get annoyed when I’ve already put my card into the POS terminal before realising I could have just tapped the screen. And mobile payments make my life easier, whether making ...

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Craig Ramsey

Craig Ramsey Head of Real-Time Payments at ACI Worldwide

When Immediate Payments Go Bad

“I want it now.” Sounds like a petulant teenager, doesn’t it? But actually, it’s the sound of consumers and corporations around the world demanding immediate payments solutions. While immediate payments are already mature in some markets, in others they are still maturing, and for some countries, they are not even in the plans yet. But one thing...

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