1137 Results from 2015
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One nifty feature now separates Samsung from the competition in the mobile payments realm! Samsung Now Rivals Android Pay as the Top-Ranking Mobile Payment Solution Google’s Android Pay solution has been a smash-hit with a wide range of compatible mobile smartphones and tablets across the United States. Just recently, a conference was hosted in Was...
29 September 2015 /payments
An old journalist buddy of mine once confessed to me that he only had three basic story outlines; and for each article he wrote he simply had to pick the most appropriate one and modify to suit. As I sat down to think about this piece I can emphasize with my friend. There’s only so many ways one can say STP-is-a-good-thing. There’s only so many w...
28 September 2015 /sibos Standards Forum
One could say that NextGenPOS in the form of a tablet on a counter is just replacing “low-tech” cash registers with affordable mobile devices. But that would not do it justice because NextGenPOS gives small and medium sized merchants (SMEs) enterprise-grade functionality. So in many ways, NextGenPOS acts more like an affordable version of PC-POS b...
28 September 2015 /payments
The manufacturing sector is rife with tools and technologies, but new survey results indicate it’s the sector that has the most to gain in retooling to address the new financial operations frontier. The 2015 research, conducted by Redshift Research Ltd., is based on interviews conducted with more than 1,500 finance business professionals in 11 coun...
28 September 2015
A few days ago I read an article in the Times of India “Freelance CFO”s, the unsung startup heroes” which mentioned the increasing trend of startups hiring CFO Advisory / consulting services to help them create / validate their business fundamentals and financials. The article states “Behind every successful startup, there is an unsung hero — th...
28 September 2015 /startups
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
You have the best IT security, but dang it…the bad guys keep getting in. This means someone inside your house keeps opening the back door and letting the thieves slip inside. You have to find out who this enabler in your company is, and it may be more than one. They don’t know they’re letting in the crooks, because the crooks are disguising themse...
26 September 2015 /security
The objective of this 3 part series is to examine in brief the barriers and motivators for the key players in (the author believes it has elements that can stand true for any economy that intends to go cashless) Journey towards a cashless society (India as a example). As per the annual report of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for 2013-14, the amount ...
26 September 2015 /payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Swaps of Virtual Currencies Need to be traded in Specific Facilities or Markets! Congratulations & Celebrations! First Virtual Currency License issued in NY In what is being hailed as a first for state regulators in New York, the very first license has been awarded to a company which uses virtual currency. The name of that company is Circle In...
24 September 2015
"Rather than trying to supplant banking and venture capital, a collaborative model is emerging whereby digital platforms work side by side with traditional investors and financial institutions. Over the last few years, much has been made of the potential for alternative finance to disrupt the traditional financial industry, including subvertin...
Prashant a friend (Working as a branch manager @ Pvt Sector bank) from Bhopal called up few days back and had a straight question “What are the opportunities for a banker in Payments Bank?” Below mentioned is the part 1 of that conversation, the objective is also to present authors understanding of what kind of business model a payments bank can ex...
23 September 2015 /payments /inclusion Financial Inclusion
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