1137 Results from 2015
Tom Hay Principal Consultant at Payment Systems Europe
As I collected the broken and uneaten remains of my children's Easter eggs, it reminded me of a particular egg: Humpty Dumpty, from the English nursery rhyme. Poor Humpty fell off a wall: "And all the King’s horses, and all the King’s men, Couldn't put Humpty together again." There is no King of Europe, but there are plenty Presidents – o...
21 April 2015 /payments
Retired Member
City of London Police Chief Adrian Leppard, at a recent Tech UK conference, said that up to 80% of online crime goes unreported to the authorities. The Commissioner told the audience that the scale of the threat is much greater than the public think, so much so that it may have even surpassed what drugs make up the criminal economy. Leppard’s conc...
21 April 2015 /security /regulation
Future Market Insights (FMI), in its recent report titled “Wearable Computing Devices Market: Smart Fitness Devices to Outpace Market Growth, 2014 to 2020” indicates that the global wearable computing devices market revenue is expected to grow at a considerable CAGR of 36.8% during the forecast period. In addition, in terms of shipments this marke...
20 April 2015
Anthony Pereira CEO at Percentile
Six key tenants for risk technology platforms, to ensure they can handle risk calculations, aggregation and reporting requirements in ever more complex and fragmented market structures. Given events in the financial sector in the past decade, it’s safe to say all eyes are on risk. In the context of lessons learned from the financial crisis, the B
20 April 2015 /regulation
The introduction of Apple Pay did wake up a few folks in San Jose. So much so that eBay announced plans to split up eBay and PayPal – a major and sudden reversal of strategy. Did Apple’s announcement relegate PayPal’s efforts at the point-of-sale (POS) to a nice experiment that once-upon-a-time seemed promising? How come that the payments attacker...
20 April 2015 /payments
In the previous post, I have made a statement that people not only dislike their retail banks, but they even distrust them. Despite that customers tend to stick around with their banks instead of switching to another bank, which I diagnosed as fear that a new relationship might strongly resemble the current one. At the competitive landscape, we wi...
20 April 2015 /retail /startups Innovation in Financial Services
Samsung is currently taking a pummelling from the media. Last month it was criticised for its Smart TVs that ‘spy’ on people in their homes, selling information on their behaviour and viewing choices to a nameless third party who is exploiting it commercially. As if this wasn’t enough to keep their PR team busy, a new fact has come to light: Samsu...
20 April 2015 /startups
Anthony Pickup Consultant at Capgemini Invent
Following the publication of these functional requirements[1] and the rapidly changing technology available there is a risk the document is out of date before it is agreed The document as one may expect it is very focused on EMV technology that is based in the 1990’s. This EMV technology was updated with the addition of contactless technology in ...
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
Gee, it sounds like something out of one of those 1970s TV shows about government spies, but it’s reality: Plug this little thing into a wall socket and it records the keystrokes of a person nearby typing into a Microsoft wireless keyboard. The little gadget sends the information back to the gadget’s owner over the Internet. The device looks like ...
19 April 2015 /security
Abhishek Chatterjee Managing Partner at Gartner Inc.
As the society is riding the hype of Internet of things, we are beginning to see application of IoT in day to day life & incremental adoption at industrial scale. Mckinsey predicts that there will be approximately 30 Billion objects connected to internet of things by 2020. Moore's law will ensure we continue to improve the computing capacity i...
18 April 2015 /security Innovation in Financial Services
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