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A discussion of trends in innovation management within financial institutions, and the key processes, technology and cultural shifts driving innovation.
There's rumours flying around about Apple possibly pulling out of their previous NFC (Near-Field Communications) launch commitment for the iPhone 5. Of course, Apple has neither substantiated or denie...
South-by-Southwest's Interactive sessions in Austin, TX are a major creative and customer-focused experience. The amount of networking that is taking place, the amount of active innovation and discuss...
The final version of the biased report of the expert group on e-invoicing proposed a European Electronic Invoicing Framework (EEIF). The EEIF is expected to (1) establish a common conceptual structure...
The Digital Agenda aims to deliver benefits to consumers and businesses, based on ultra-fast Internet connections and interoperable applications. To underline the importance of information and communi...
This is the global support from SWIFT that the market needs. As seen from the work with the Single European Payment Area it is necessary to get a network standard in place first – and then make the m...
NACHA CEBP and PayItGreen quantified the size of the U.S. e-Billing(electric billing) market, indicating that a total of 5.1 billion electric bills were delivered in 2010 alone. However, some consume...
In an earlier post i mentioned the friction between the new-borns CIIv2 and ISO20022. This raised some comments both on the EEI Platform website and also here on Finextra, where we reposted the story....
Snippets (emphasis mine) from Bruno Koch newsletter “Market development in 2010 was very dynamic, although I was somewhat over-optimistic in the case of Italy and Spain. I assumed that the Italian l...
In my recent book I posited that I wasn't against branches and that rather than advocating the wholesale closure or departure from branch networks, that I was interested in seeing branch focus/form ad...
With the dust settling on Reg. E, the regulation that requires U.S. banks and credit unions to get their customers to opt-in for overdraft protection, it looks like banks’ revenue will not fall all th...
As I read this piece about a teenage cybercrime forum founder being jailed, the above thought came in to my head - "what do the credit card thieves use to pay each other online?". Assume the...
http://www.linkedin.com/groupItem?view=&srchtype=discussedNews&gid=3709691&item=45330445&type=member&trk=eml-anet_dig-b_pd-ttl-cn Making it simple for the SMEs is the key. And cert...