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A discussion of trends in innovation management within financial institutions, and the key processes, technology and cultural shifts driving innovation.
AFP has published this year's report on Payment Frauds last week. As always, year after year more corporates have indicated they were victims of payment frauds. From Banker's point of view, this high...
I have lately been busy with a new focus on innovations. We now have more ingredients for doing more new things and old things differently with technology than ever before. Recessions are often the ti...
There is no question that mistakes have been made in the financial crisis and people rightly or wrongly are suffering the consequences of such actions. Investment firms are attempting to alter practic...
I suspect the memorable phrase coined today by Hector Sants, CEO of the Financial Services Authority, will long be remembered as a turning point in the debate about regulatory structure. He said "...
Perhaps the lack of popularity of NFC is due to excessive assumptions regarding NFC and the absence of real benefits overall. The assumption in the article that other methods require more expertise on...
Hardly mobile transactions. No different than sticking a chip to your shoe and waving your number 10's at the reader. While it is nice cheap spin it really isn't mobile, you need a reader plugged in s...
An interesting article from Netbanker on bank charges. I am sure, every bank thinks on the topic: if no big money can be earned on (new) loans, then what is next? Transactions? Service? Additional pr...
I recently started to listen to the audio version of two of my favourite magazines - The Economist and New Scientist, and have been impressed by the convenience and quality. I'm not a fan of the word ...
Banks - especially Investment banks - are now being squeezed from all sides - revaluation of securitized papers to unrealistically low market price levels, losses from credit books as economies nosedi...
More competition in the already hyper competitive payments market. A new entrant noca.com is challenging the supposedly old guard. I suppose you can call Paypal old guard even though lots of people st...
Gary Wright see https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=2447 sat and listened to a presentation that I made on Tuesday and wrote up a piece on his blog, due to reasons far beyond our un