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Enhancing POS Terminal Security

The thefts of credit card details from a host of retail outlets and, more recently, from a series of hotel chains, underlines the fundamental weakness in the way point of sale terminals handle authentication data. In fact, anywhere a credit or debit card is used, such as an ATM or online store, suffers from the same vulnerability. Although credit ...

Ziv Cohen

Ziv Cohen CEO at Paygilant

How Can India Best Prepare for a Cashless Economy?

When Prime Minister Modi announced his demonetization policy on November 8, 2016, suddenly eliminating 86% of the currency in circulation, it was a sudden shock to the Indian economy, a country where an estimated 98% of all transactions are in cash. It shouldn't be too surprising that Indians started to embrace mobile wallets and digital banking a...

/payments Asia Financial Services

Sameer Singh Jaini

Sameer Singh Jaini CEO at www.TheDigitalFifth.com

To Hell with Digital

Industries of the future would come out of amalgamation of current industries, which were essentially built in Analog world. All success stories of Digital world have been about re-imagining of the current industries by Digital mavericks. Customers, as of today, have to install multiple applications for handling financial relationships (typically ...

/retail Disruption in Retail Banking

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Migrating to Microsoft SharePoint 2016? Here is What You Need to Know

SharePoint 2016 by Microsoft, is a comprehensive tool used for document management and collaboration. The tool is a catalyst in modernizing on premise infrastructure and facilitating improvement in performance and reliability. This further builds a strong foundation for enterprise innovation. It is known for its user-centric file storage and docum...

/startups Business Knowledge for IT

Sarah Jackson

Sarah Jackson Director at Equiniti Credit Services

Staying agile: The key to longevity for today’s challenger banks

Despite their fragmentation, challenger banks remain united in their need for operational agility. The term ‘challenger banks’ is fast becoming a misnomer, such is the level of diversity displayed by today’s diverse range of financial services providers. At one end of the spectrum are the mobile only banks, like Atom, Monzo and Starling. These are ...

Banking Architecture

Victor Martin

Victor Martin CMO at SquareRoot

Is Your Organisation Ready for the Big Data Challenge?

Big Data is about the big possibility, promise and role of digital data in shaping the digital experience and we are already aware of it. With the mobile apps taking center stage in the evolution and growth of data, we are already aware of the intertwined relation between mobility and Big Data. While mobile apps and mobile web are playing the lead...

Business Knowledge for IT

Christoffer Hernæs

Christoffer Hernæs Advisor and investor at Hernæs Consulting

If developers are the new rock stars, APIs are their instruments

Last week we announced that Skandiabanken will be supporting digital currencies by integrating to Coinbase and exposing the account balance held at Coinbase. The real innovation really has little to do with bitcoin and digital currencies, but rather a representation of the way open banking will shape new products development and customer experienc...

Kunal Patel

Kunal Patel Product Manager at 1E

Mobile Wallets - Is The Future Rosy?

Mobile wallets have been talked about for years, I've lost count at the number of reports I've read citing that mobile wallets will dominate the world and that your traditional wallet will be replaced by an app on your smartphone. The UK and Europe My first foray into the mobile wallet world was way back in 2012, working for the European based Tele...

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Sameer Singh Jaini

Sameer Singh Jaini CEO at www.TheDigitalFifth.com

Fintech - Bank Partnership - Friction Part 1

Fintechs have started collaborating with banks across multiple areas and have begun helping the bank in building innovative products / services. This collaboration is happening across lending, deposits, payments (UPI leads the way), investments etc. This new relationship amongst Banks and Fintechs is creating immense pressure on bank’s internal sys...

/retail Fintech innovation and startups

Carlo R.W. De Meijer

Carlo R.W. De Meijer Owner and Economist at MIFSA

Blockchain and the airline industry: ready for take-off?

Last Sunday I was visiting a hockey match here in the place where I live. Near the playing field, I was drinking a beer, discussing with a friend of mine who worked at a big international airline company about the role blockchain could play in this sector. This triggered me to write this blog. By the way, our team lost! Let’s first look at where...

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