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Felitas Aguilar

Felitas Aguilar Global Account Manager at Dovetail Systems Ltd

For German consumers, cash is still king

Germany is, undoubtedly, a cash-focused society. Increasing the use of cashless payments methods in Germany will therefore require commitment from the banks and retailers involved. However, at present, many German retailers still ask their customers to pay with cash instead of using a card. Despite the costs and risk associated with the handling o...

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Customer service matters more than ever

On Friday we were treated to the news that the UK economy is still in recession contracting 0.4 per cent between July and September 09. This economic data gives extra significance to some recent CPP research on the importance of customer service. Our research shows that one in four consumers would not use a company again if they were on the receiv...

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Elizabeth Lumley

Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted

SocGen, HSBC and Unicredit talk dealer portals

Finextra is hosting a live webcast, along with Caplin, on Tuesday, 10 Nov. at 2:30 GMT. Resgiter here. The live and interactive webcast, Buyers' market - single-dealer portals and courting the online client, will allow views to watch a debate between three major financial firms - HSBC, Societe Generale and Unicredit. Along with Paul Caplin from C...

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Machine readable news seems a damp squib

The concept of “machine readable” until a few years ago was something of an alien concept. Now a person only has to think of travelling to realise that reading machines are taking over with the use of machine readable passports. When it comes to machine readable news though, despite the hype, there appears to be little in the way of actual take up...

Innovation in Financial Services

Gary Wright

Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research

Tesco showing the way

Tesco are moving into Banking and this can only be great news for the Banking sector and customers. The word trust has been lost with existing banks and by introducing a trusted brand like Tesco into the market the sector can start rebuilding. It will not be plain sailing for Tesco but they surely go with the good will of everybody. The shake up th...

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SEPA Direct Debit has arrived ... hasn't it?

Five days to go and the SEPA Direct Debit start date is finally upon us, but is anyone in the industry taking any notice? As many have commented, it is not the ‘start dates’ but the ‘end dates’ that hold the most importance. The confusion about an end-date for legacy payment systems, and even a timeframe to set an end-date, has added to the lack ...

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VerifySmart - a PUMP and DUMP scheme

I found this great analysis concerning this VSMR new release : http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=42938028 Another outrageous revenue projection "Based on the current $22B annual spend on in-bound remittance transfers in the Philippines today, the Company estimates a conservative one percent share of the market, g...

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Stephen Wilson

Stephen Wilson Managing Director at Lockstep Consulting

Kaspersky and his Internet Passport: surely he jests

OMG. Eugene Kaspersky wants an Internet Passport because he says "anonymity causes security headaches and should be outlawed". This is madness. The social repurcussions are surely obvious, while it's not clear what problem it might solve. Most cybercrime is actually linked to an excess of arbitrary identification, with inadequate safe...

/security /regulation Online Banking

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Data breaches and fraud-worse than you think

Today newly released Javelin research shows that the 11% of US people who received one of those "throw-away" data breach notification letters really *are* at greater risk of ID fraud. Experts: if you're not surprised, than you know something that over 300 million Americans don't: our research also shows that actual fraud victims who rec

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Gary Wright

Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research

XBRL and the Identity Issue

The DTCC/SWIFT/XBRL initiative will I am sure, be a success and be a springboard to a new age of data standards. However, there remains an important issue that needs attention and that is, to protect the identity of the issuer of the taxonomy and the security of the data they issue. The obvious solution to the identity problem is to create a direc...

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