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A discussion of trends in innovation management within financial institutions, and the key processes, technology and cultural shifts driving innovation.
An advertisement by a mutual fund company stated "investments are for when you need them". Settlement cycles are reducing on stock exchanges across the globe. Money movements for trade sett
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...
COUNCIL DIRECTIVE amending Directive 2006/112/EC on the common system of value added tax as regards the rules on invoicing Snippets – emphasis mine: “(8) Since the use of electronic invoicing can hel...
This case (e-invoices received by SMEs) represents quite well the market trend in Finland. The trend on the e-invoices-sent-by-SMEs has been steeper and the volumes much higher as so many invoice rece...
Leaders in the Economist digital economy ranking. The survey appears to be very thorough - but I would put more weight on productivity improving innovations starting from the highest and massive volum...
In my recent blog on branches I got some reader feedback that leads me to believe that some have interpreted my positive slant on the effectiveness of direct channels as evidence that I am 'against' b...
It’s simple. Winning a race means “getting there first”. The same rule applies to banking, with a small corollary, which is that the most agile (and not necessarily the fastest) usually wins. Is ther...
I’ve spent the better part of the last three months meeting and talking to some of the best and brightest bankers in Australia, Asia, UK and the USA and what I’ve learned is fairly predictable, and ju...
http://boharald.blogspot.com/2010/06/future-of-vat-automatically-real-time.html We all know that today’s VAT reporting and payment process is mildly speaking cumbersome and expensive for 24 million en...
http://boharald.blogspot.com/2010/06/how-to-solve-online-card-fraud.html Excellent YouTube presentation by Douwe Lycklama of Innopay.
I have a bit of a soft spot for technology. So I was interested to find out more recently about some of the smart technology that is behind the eye catching video advertising screens that are popping
Here's the last part ! Enjoy ! Bruno Joanides (BJ) : Do you plan to extend your activities to other countries? What is your strategy about this? Nick Ogden (NO) : Yes our network already covers 50 co...