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Uri Rivner CEO and Co-Founder at Refine Intelligence
Hey, that’s a first. A bank sues a customer over losing money to fraud. It used to be the other way around. Online banking fraud got to executive level attention when in 2005 Bank of America was sued by a customer who got infected with a Trojan and lost $90,000. This was a commercial account, but it had huge ramifications on consumer security. The...
11 February 2010 /security
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When something happens for the first time - it's avantgarde. If you see it twice - it's original. On the third time - it's plagiarism. On the fourth - it's pastiche. But when it happens for the fifth time - it's a genre... (Anonymous) In the never ending discussion on innovation vs. execution (see Sara Lacy's great post here) I tend to be an avid...
10 February 2010 /payments /regulation
Butch Cassidy: You know, when I was a kid, I always thought I'd grow up to be a hero. Sundance Kid: Well, it's too late now. Butch Cassidy: What'd you say that for? You didn't have to say something like that. When I grew up, one of my favorite Hollywood themes was bank robberies. From Bonnie and Clyde to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, crime...
07 February 2010 /security
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
Innovations always take time. Also in the case of e-invoicing. A few observations: - e-banking took time - and typically some actors lost faith (did not jump on the bandwagon or went passive) halfway down to the ice-hockey stick effect) - ice-hockey stick effects are next to omni-present in innovations - and now there has been a long break in real ...
07 February 2010 /payments
By 2014, mobile and Internet technology will help over 3 billion of the world's adults to electronically transact. Emerging economies will see increase in mobile and Internet adoption through 2014. Worldwide mobile penetration rate will get to 90%. - "Gartner's Top Predictions for IT Organizations and Users, 2010 and Beyond: A New Balance&quo...
06 February 2010 /payments
Banking has a long history of producing innovative technology; from the Big Bang of the 1980s, through ATMs and debit cards, to this century’s online banking. Technology has repeatedly changed the way banking happens. Today, this combination of a strategic and innovative approach is vital if banks are going to transform themselves. As Gartner sugge...
03 February 2010
Paul Love VP Business Development at Konsentus
In the last week or so we have seen announcements from PKO Bank Polski and Intesa Sanpaolo about their plans to roll out contactless to their customers, with PKO Polski reporting that 6 million cards will be replaced in the project. However, there do seem to be mixed views in the market about the short to medium term growth of contactless. While so...
28 January 2010 /payments
What are Internet users doing on the net? A new study (Redera) produced the following for Finland: - looking for information 97% - e-banking 95% - customer feedback 76% - public sector services 71% - shopping 70% - inquiries (about merchandi...
27 January 2010 /payments
In the previous post we've looked at mobile payments in a glance, why there's a huge chance today and what are the biggest challenges. In this post I will start diving deeper into them, and suggest a few ideas. There's a group of very talented guys I know, who used to work at this IT Company in Israel that was a part of the mobile industry. They ...
25 January 2010 /payments /regulation
Innovations do not come from outer space - technology often comes - at least from space. There is a long way for new technology to become an invention, then give birth to a business idea which has the potential of becoming an innovation - a new practise which eventually is adopted by a critical mass of potential users - and then becomes the much s...
23 January 2010 /payments
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