1013 Results from 2011
Retired Member
Basel III regulations are attempting to bring back some the much-needed checks and balances in the Finance Industry so that we do not see a repeat of 2008 crisis. The set of guidelines is all about re-establishing the rules to ensure a brighter future for the global economy. I’m pro-Basel III. After all, no one wants to experience the 2008 financi...
30 March 2011 /regulation Innovation in Financial Services
Why do companies continue to pay by check? In part five of the series, “The Top 5 Reasons Why Checks Still Dominate B2B Payments,” I explore the challenges of corporate inertia and resistance to change. Reason #5 - Corporate Inertia and Resistance to Change. Let’s face it, organizational change is difficult. For some, the risk of change exceeds ...
29 March 2011 /payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
Wrote this last year: "So sensemaking to let citizens log in to public sector with e-bank log-on tools. This is so saving both tax payer's money and speeding up e-government as tools are familiar, trusted and much more convenient than any public-sector-only tool would be. Several countries have already this so obviously beneficial public-pri...
29 March 2011 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
In response to the blog about "Google partners Citi and MasterCard on NFC m-payments", I thought I would give you my thoughts on the NFC options that are out there. It might only be Citi for now, but I suspect all of the major banks are looking at this. There are effectively 3 ways of achieving NFC in your phone/mobile device and each ...
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
This mess Joseph Kidd stole Larry Smith’s identity 17 years ago, when Smith was 50 years old. While operating under Smith’s identity, Kidd “spent time in jail, as sent to prison, paroled, obtained welfare and Medicare benefits, and got married.” He did all this using Smith’s name, which means that Smith has had to deal with the imposter’s actions ...
29 March 2011 /security /regulation
2010 was a good growth year for e-invoicing using the Finvoice standard in Finland. 71% growth – now 14,4m (good bank statistics available). This would on EU-level equal 1 billion invoices. 1,1 million e-invoice requests-to-receive) were sent – EU equivalent would be 71m. Other formats (TEAPPS and Edifact ) exceed 100m in a conservative estimate. ...
28 March 2011 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Ray Kurzweil eminently presents his views in this video. Singularity it will be – maybe not dramatically – like the Computer with its superior artificial intelligence having become so good at improving itself and its friends (with exponential speed) that It one day will stand up and say: “Thank you humans for having created me. I will take over fr...
26 March 2011 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Craig Ramsey Head of Real-Time Payments at ACI Worldwide
As the IPS conference in London drew to a close yesterday one theme was coming through loud and clear: there are plenty of new payments methods emerging into the mainstream, such as mobile, and lots of new ways to interact with customers. The innovation in the retail banking sector is impressive, but it seems not to be met by an equal level of inn...
25 March 2011 /payments /wholesale
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
We're hosting a webcast on Finextra right now looking at everyone's favourite tech trend - cloud computing. However, before any IT head worth his iPad case starts dreaming about the processing power, flexibility and resiliency cloud computing can offer - his or her thoughts inevitability turn to security. In the webcast Adeel Saeed, head of Corpor...
25 March 2011 /regulation /wholesale Financial Risk Management
Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven
There's a much quoted line in the UK banking market that you are more likely to get divorced than change current accounts. This comes from the statistic that around 75% of customers have never closed a current account, but that approximately 45% of marriages end in divorce. But this is misleading. The fact is that banks don't record churn or swit...
25 March 2011 /retail Innovation in Financial Services
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