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Not surprisingly, the recent political elections in Germany have brought the question of financial transaction tax (FTT) back to the fore. Basically, the Social Democrats (SPD) are making it a conditi...
There’s change afoot for the transaction banking industry. Banks are aiming to grow their share of this profitable market. They’re searching for new ways to differentiate themselves and become the pro...
HM Treasury has published a paper “Capital Requirements Directive 4 (CRD IV): consultation on country-by-country reporting [CBCR]”. CRD IV requires institutions to disclose: (i) their name, (ii) the ...
Payment fraud evolves constantly, changing and adapting to the systems, networks and infrastructure. Criminals are always on the lookout for a weak link in the payment cycle to exploit, altering their...
If banks don't develop a second generation digital channels strategy, they won't be around in 10 years time. It sounds like a bold statement, but it is a pretty safe bet. Customer behaviours, right ar...
More details of dark PR attacks against Togliattiazot (ToAZ), a major Russian ammonia and urea producer based in the industrial city of Tolyatti in the Samara Region on the Volga River, have come to l...
The Australian Securities and Invesments Commission (ASIC) has published Regulatory Guide 251 for reporting entities that are subject to the reporting obligations under the ASIC Derivative Transaction...
It is a wellknown fact that the capability of IT is doubling in relation to its cost every year. It seems to be less wellknown what it means when something huge is doubling and doubling and.. (Ray Kur...
I went to a banking technology seminar just over a year ago where the main focus of the presentations was how to create a single universal payment message type and the issues around customer ID&V
... not where it has been. Anyone who read some of my blog posts here at Finextra knows that I like that Wayne Gretzky's approach. In fact, I use both real-time dynamic "puck" analysis as w...
I've got a confession to make. I still sign my signature with a pen when I use my credit card. I don't have to, and I really shouldn't. I've been writing about technology, banking and payments on and ...
Entrepreneurs, specifically small business owners, can’t foresee or predict the precise future of their endeavors. They can’t predict the economy to collapse, the ever changing value of the dollar, or...