189 Results from 2018, /payments
Retired Member
Natalie Ceeney’s recently published UK Access to Cash review asks us to consider the implications of a society where physical cash doesn’t exist. It got me thinking of a video clip I used to open a recent conference presentation. It’s a scene from one of the more forgettable Star Trek movies. Captain Jean Luc Picard is chatting to his current roman...
20 December 2018 /payments /inclusion Financial Supply Chain
As the largest demographic in the US workforce, the opinions of Millennials are a big deal.There are over 29 million Millennials in US alone that want their pay loaded onto a prepaid paycard. B&C Media, LLC has recently released a survey covering millennials’ use of prepaid cards. Results include millennials’ overall happiness with prepaid, ...
19 December 2018 /payments
As Autumn turned to Winter and the Christmas tree went up, I’ve found myself daydreaming of a European holiday somewhere sunny. Maybe it’s the Instagram feed full of friends on a sojourn to Italy, France, or Germany, or the constant barrage of Premier League adverts on the NBC Networks (Let’s Go Gunners!), but earlier this year it was something el...
18 December 2018 /payments /regulation Trends in Financial Services
Anna Kuzmina Expert at Fintech
“Central Bank of Russia takes control over foreign payment systems and e-wallets”, “Alipay and WeChat Pay will be restricted in Russia”, “Russian Central Bank will strengthen regulation towards Apple Pay and Google Pay” — these were the business news headlines after new amendments to payment laws were introduced to the Russian government last week...
18 December 2018 /payments /regulation Banking Regulations
Chris Principe CEO at APB, Inc.
Crypto-Crypt or Gold Mine? As you probably remember, Bitcoin was the big news headlines and the dinner table talk of a year ago. As crypto-currencies soared in value, it was rightly the dominant topic of conversation. Crypto-currencies had advanced in value quite dramatically through the second half of 2017. Bitcoin increased from $1,000 each, to ...
13 December 2018 /payments Fintech
Bob Lyddon Consultant at Lyddon Consulting Services
The last update we gave was that the sponsor of Project Carlton had signed off on the initial research and endorsed its sharing for validation with five or six interested parties. We did that, got very favourable responses, and have then: presented aspects of the research at industry events; used the research as a basis for a submission to the Tre...
12 December 2018 /payments /retail Transaction Banking
Are you a small or medium-sized business looking to generate a recurring revenue stream and add additional income? Want to get a share of interchange fees when you customers make a purchase? Is it time to take your customer and employee rewards programs to the next level? Then it’s time to monetize your consumer payments platforms and switch to pr...
11 December 2018 /payments
Retailers are in the midst of the busiest shopping period of the year, starting from Black Friday, through to Cyber Monday, pre-Christmas, Boxing Day and then the January sales. Huge volumes of money will be changing hands, often in high-pace, stressful situations. While on the whole this will be welcomed by retailers, it doesn’t come without its ...
11 December 2018 /security /payments Fintech
I was in Chile two years ago, and some things have changed there by then, but not many. This is still a quite cash-dependant country with mundane issues over internet traffic pricing. Taxi that is taking routes like a bus. And the unrequited love for international AliExpress, Apple Music, Google Play, Netflix, etc. Seems that Chile’s biggest obsta
10 December 2018 /payments Fintech
Kenya’s economy is largely driven by agriculture and tourism. Struck by a drought in 2017, Kenya was grappling with headwinds in order to sustain its economy. The Kenyan shilling took a severe beating. The Central Bank of Kenya was hard at work to keep the economy and the currency afloat. The only beacon of hope for Kenya during those difficult mo...
09 December 2018 /payments /inclusion Financial Risk Management
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