1148 Results from 2018
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Contactless payments’ popularity is undeniable. Of the 3.5 billion payment cards produced annually, about half are now contactless. With new figures highlighting rapid adoption across Europe, contactless cards and payments have even been dubbed the continent’s ‘new normal’ way to pay and continued growth seems inevitable. This is also true in othe...
09 May 2018 /payments
Keith Stonell Managing Director, EMEA at Guidewire
GDPR implementation is now weeks away. The impact that GDPR will have on the insurance industry has been well documented. Indeed, I’ve previously commented on it here. Some of the concerns that have been voiced look well founded; for example, a stampede of consumers flexing their muscles on data privacy. Recent research suggests that two in five
09 May 2018 /regulation Data Protection Act Issues
Much like the British weather so far this year, the forecast for British retail in 2018 is mixed. We’ve seen reports of store closures and job losses, but it isn’t all doom and gloom; shopping centre owner Hammerson has just reported a strong start to the year despite ongoing challenges for the high street. There are reasons to be optimistic. To q...
09 May 2018 /payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
At last - The ‘Beast from the East’ has given way to an African heatwave! Which is great news for retailers, since better weather motivates consumers to refresh their wardrobes, book holidays and spruce up their homes. All good things for merchants. However, a rise in spending also leads to a rise in chargeback claims (the return of funds to a con...
09 May 2018 /payments /retail Trends in Financial Services
It might sound too good to be true, but there is a way to gain greater visibility over group cash, reduce payments fraud, and extract further value from ERP systems – without migrating decentralized subsidiaries into the ERP environment. Cloud technologies offer key benefits in that aspect, but many users still have security concerns around how th...
08 May 2018 /payments /inclusion Treasury Management
Humans are short-term focused Ever since we were little, our (grand)parents have been pushing us to save more money for unexpected costs. The funny thing is that although many of us understand the concept of ‘saving for a rainy day’, we are still tempted to spend our money on short-term happiness such as luxury goods, holidays and restaurants. Why...
08 May 2018 /ai /inclusion Fintech innovation and startups
Pooja Golakonda Lead Consultant at Edgeverve
Knowingly or unknowingly, we all do analysis and decision making in our daily lives. It could be deciding whether to hit the gym, which doctor to go to, which school to put your kid in and even for that matter whether to reward a bonus to your maid or not. The only difference when it comes to corporate life, we somehow are trained into the habit o...
08 May 2018 /startups
Antonio Ferre IT Manager at Plastic Forte
Regardless of how a software development project was contracted (fixed price, time and materials, etc.) or how it was managed from a methodology point of view (Agile, Waterfall, Prince2, …), by the end, a software product will be created. This product, irrespective of contract or methods, will have a specific cost, a size, different quality indic
08 May 2018 /wholesale Standards Forum
Ward Hagenaar Head of Consulting - Co-Founder at PaymentGenes
This remains to be seen. IATA and Deutsche Bank launch a PSD2 based initiative focussed on potential cost reduction with card payments in the airline industry. Certainly an interesting move by International Air Transport Association (IATA) and Deutsche Bank. It could increase pressure on the payments industry regarding costs, innovation and will l...
07 May 2018 Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Ivy Schmerken Editorial Director at FlexTrade Systems
Diving into one of the more controversial issues in equity market structure, U.S. regulators are moving forward with the transaction-fee pilot that will force stock exchanges to lower the fee caps on rebates they pay to brokers and market makers. “I think the SEC is about to embark upon a productive time for assessing market structure reforms,” sai...
07 May 2018 /regulation Financial Services Regulation
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