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The financial services sector has a problem… it is not a hidden problem at the back of their systems, or… well… maybe they have, but that is not what I will be writing about. They have a problem with ...
As a result of my blog a few weeks ago, I had the honor to talk to a group of journalists about the myths that still exist on contactless cards and mobile payment technologies. The goal was to debunk ...
Last week I blogged about contactless cards. The title started with “The war on cash”. This confused quite some readers, according to the comments when discussing my blog of last week. Interesting stu...
The last few weeks we, payments experts, were excited with news from banks and their contactless innovations, in an urge to promote electronic payments: on October 16, KBC Bank announced its sup
Last week I represented The Banking Scene at 5th NPF and Regtech Leaders Forum, a boutique conference in the middle of Brussels, with about 75 participants. The Banking Scene was a media partner at th...
I have been breaking my head on what kind of new bank I would invest in (supposing I have the money for it of course). I have read about several business plans already, however if I invest in a bank i...
I am not going to claim mobile payments is going to eliminate cheques at all. To be honest I was more looking for a catchy phrase to start a story of cheques and why mobile might crush the popularity ...
This is a question I am thinking of for some period now. Innovation in payments is made for the customer... most at least! But it is all going so fast, that I wonder how long the Industry will be able...
There are several terms to characterise payment systems in the way their architecture is structured. I would like to elaborate a bit on the modular payment systems. How does that work? A modular payme...
I really like this kind of innovation honestly. It is cost saving, client friendly and lets banks do business on a geographically larger scale, well done HSBC! Of course this is not a new technology. ...
Trialpay surprised me this week with a couple of interesting surveys: one on the effect of Motherday on the revenue in social gaming and one on ad-funded payments. Let us start with the ad funded pay...
As I stated in my last blog I was going to elaborate a bit more on the market opportunities of Biometric Payments these days. Through a couple of recent examples I hope to give you a better idea on h...