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Matthew Dragiff - SunGard AvantGard Payment Services - Jacksonville | 31/03/2011 | 3755 views | 2 comments

When the US Payment is the Foreign Payment

The North American B2B Payments landscape is somewhat unique, due in large part to the significantly high use of checks as opposed to ACH, wires or cards. The shortcomings of checks are well known and understood and they include higher costs, greater levels of fraud and longer settlement periods. The 2010 AFP Electronic Payments Survey indicated t... Tags: Cards, PaymentsGroup: Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

Kishore Meda - Harvey Nash - London | 31/03/2011 | 3535 views | 6 comments

Are Pay to Use ATMs going the dinosaur way ?

I always thought that with so many 'free to use' cash machines, why would any customer pay a charge to withdraw one's own money. I stopped by the services at Beaconsfield and saw two Link cash machines with a few customers. I rationalised that it must be a coincidence to have so many customers. So I observed for 10 minutes. There were always custom... Tags: Cards, Payments

a non-active Finextra member | 31/03/2011 | 3316 views

OTC opportunities in infrastructure investment

There’s a lot of talk right now about regulation in the OTC derivatives market – and rightly so. Both Dodd-Frank in the US and the proposed European Market Infrastructure Regulations (EMIR) in Europe carry restrictions for those trading these lucrative instruments. Many fund managers are worried about the impact that these restrictions ... Tags: Risk & regulation

Dirk Kinvig - Finextra - London | 31/03/2011 | 2415 views

Commenting on the news articles

In the last year the web team has made several revisions to Finextra's Commenting system. One of the changes was to alert Finextra Community members, via email, when another member has commented upon the same blog that they have. We like this feature and it's clear that the Community does too, as we've had several requests from Community to roll ... Group: Finextra site news

Antti Larvala - CAL360 Degrees - Brussels | 31/03/2011 | 2724 views | 1 comment

Reflections on SEPA

Tomorrow SEPA has been over four months a primary payment system in Europe. It is really good system, in paper. Hopefully soon in reality. I have collected some of my own real life experience using SEPA during four month period. I reflect my experience to four countries; Belgium where I live, Finland, where I do business, France and Italy where I ...