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Jim Steven

Jim Steven Head of Crisis & Breach Response at Experian Consumer Services

Seven steps to minimise risk in the automotive industry

With the introduction of the GDPR regulation this year, automotive dealerships are amongst the many UK businesses that have been taking a long hard look at how they collect, store, and manage data. Dealerships have quite a challenging supply chain network with partners ranging from vehicle manufacturers, insurance partners, servicing partners to n...

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What Improvements Has Foreign Exchange Seen Thanks to Fintech?

It’s hard to ignore the presence of fintech all around us these days, and it looks like the situation is only going to move further in that direction if current trends are to be of any indication. There is also a lot of speculation regarding the exact place that fintech has in our world at the moment, but one thing is clear – sectors like foreign ...

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Payment outages don’t have to keep happening. Here’s why.

Over the last 12-months, several high-profile FinTechs and challenger banks have experienced multiple outages for cards processing, leading to reputational damage, anxious tweets, irritated customers, and potentially, lost revenue. Why does it keep happening? Most FinTech money management companies and challenger banks issue debit cards for their ...

Fintech innovation and startups

Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Economy of Real Time

In the quest for better productivity in the global markets we have been listing huge levers like: - Economy of Scale - still important - even if IT-processing costs have been coming down - Economy of Scope - still important - especially as customers plastic brains have all but eliminated attention spans - and thus comprehensive offerings (self- and...

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How to create a post-launch plan for a mobile app

How do you build a successful fintech mobile app? Seems like a reasonable question, right? Judging by how quickly Google auto-complete filled it in for me, seems like a question people search for with some frequency. So, how do you build a successful app? Is there a secret formula to guarantee your new app will be successful? Well, as you can im...

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Will Cost Disclosure Be The 'Halloween' of MiFID II ?

Just when wealth managers thought that they could draw a sigh of relief, knowing that their MiFID II obligations were, if not a thing of the past, at least a part of business, as usual, a sense of foreboding is once again creeping into the collective consciousness of wealth management firms. The European Union’s consumer protection regulation has

/regulation MiFID

Bob Lyddon

Bob Lyddon Consultant at Lyddon Consulting Services

What we learned about Pay.uk’s Confirmation of Payee service

On 18th October 2018 Pay.uk - the re-branded New Payment System Operator - held a launch event and distributed brochures about their new service called Confirmation of Payee, or CoP. We have previously labelled Pay.uk’s approach to CoP as a “CoP-out” and so it has proved. CoP is the service that up to now was: Meant to solve Authorised Push Payme...

/payments Transaction Banking

Shaun Thomas

Shaun Thomas Product Manager at Namescan

The Digital Identity move in Australia

Providing physical documentation such as your Passport or Birth Certificate to prove your identity is currently the biggest issue government services are facing in their attempt to digitally transform their service offerings. In Australia, the Passport Office still requires all applications to be lodged in person. Whilst I can understand the reaso...

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Money Management Past, Present and Future

Past Software to help people manage their money has been around almost as long as PC’s. Intuit was one of the first to provide such a solution and was founded in 1983, with Microsoft following 8 years later with MS Money. As PC’s got better, so did these solutions both in terms of functionality and data visualisation. (Note “Home Banking” solution...

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A rallying cry for 3 in 10 Brits - and everyone else!

The latest stats by the ONS have shown that 3 in 10 Brits don’t use online banking services, with many more choosing a mix of on- and offline banking. We need to make sure that their voices are heard. Figures by the Office for National Statistics have shown that 69% of UK consumers use the internet for online banking. While this number has seen ...

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