1137 Results from 2015
Retired Member
Numbers can be misleading. For example, with over 250 active mobile money projects around the world today, one could conclude there must be many success stories. However, my participation at last week’s 2015 Mobile Money & Digital Payments Americas event in Mexico City leads me to question this conclusion. This blog shares my observations
02 April 2015 /payments
Financial Fraud Action have recently announced that during the course of 2014, there was a 48% increase of Online Banking fraud in the UK, driven by a rise in malware and fraud perpetrated through social engineering. While the FFA states that the losses are "relatively modest", it is fair to say that despite increased media coverage of th...
02 April 2015 /security /retail
Payments with mobile devices has exploded. 2014 was a year of huge and rapid change and the first quarter of 2015 has not disappointed. Impactful events like the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and Mobile World Congress (MWC) have delivered a slew of significant announcements. So, amid the foray, what have we learned? Major players vie for US ma...
Yesterday's letter sent to the Telegraph signed by 100 of the country’s leading business figures demonstrates a real belief in the current Government’s ability to manage the economy successfully and create a strong business community. It also demonstrates, five weeks before an election, a degree of concern that despite the shambles left by Blair, ...
02 April 2015 /startups
Tejasvi Addagada Enterprise Data Head at Fortune 500 financial service provider
A recent study on banking in social media, revealed that there is hardly any difference in the way banks design their social strategy for different geos. Innovation in social features is soon to become mainstream amongst all North American banks with considerable increase in investments on technology and infrastructure. At the same time, banks in...
02 April 2015
Gerard Hergenroeder Retired IBMer and Banking Executive at Payments Shark
Is it time for the U.S. payments industry to make some bold moves? Faster Payments will be a reality in the U.S. sooner than what most believe. The last time the U.S. embarked upon a "major" payments innovation was in the 1970's. ATMs were introduced and the ACH was implemented. The card business embraced electronics at the point of sale....
01 April 2015 /payments
When it comes to innovation in financial services, the payments sector is leading the way. The widespread adoption of new technologies has completely changed the way we are able to make payments – from NFC and contactless cards to Pingit and mobile wallets. Recent research from Pinsent Masons suggests Paypal poses a bigger threat to the high street...
01 April 2015 /payments /retail
Miloslav Hoschek Freelancer at e-Silk Road, NGO
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision FSB - Financial Stability Board ECB 's Liquidity, risk aggregation FINREP,COREP reporting ECB's monetary reporting and manual interest rate MIR, ECB's securities holdings statistics requirements SHS EBA The European Banking Authority papers, EBA's ruleb
01 April 2015
EU standards, rulebooks and guidelines BCBS Basel Committee on Banking Supervision FSB Financial Stability Board ECB Liquidity, risk aggregation and reporting (FINREP, COREP frameworks) monetary reporting and manual interest rate MIR, securities holdings statistics requirements SHS EBA The European Banking Authority papers, EBA's rulebook...
Big Talk and Big Action by Mario Draghi! Europe has been in dire straits economically, what with poor productivity, high unemployment, historically low interest rates and the threat of deflation looming. While consensus has been hard to come by, the European Central Bank (ECB) under the stewardship of Mario Draghi has decided upon a quantitative e...
01 April 2015 /wholesale
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