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A discussion of trends in innovation management within financial institutions, and the key processes, technology and cultural shifts driving innovation.
I was interested to read the article ‘Brits relaxed about banks mining data to fight fraud’. It provides an interesting perspective on the growing debate regarding the need for strong data privacy as...
Anti-money laundering (AML) - as well as KYC - is something which every company serious about payments has to deal with. AML requirements are pushed by the industry regulators (who are not always in ...
Many companies, not just within the financial sector, have been looking recently to sell off anonymised data about its customers. Putting aside consumer concerns over privacy, are those organizations ...
Two years ago, Arriva won some awards for their m-ticket solution. The concept was dead simple: a mobile app that displayed "dynamic" barcode image. Masabi offered a similar concept for the...
It was hard for anyone who followed mobile payments to miss the headlines about Clinkle, a Silicon Valley startup headed by the CEO who raised more millions that his age. Getting $25m in SEED money f...
My mobile phone rang this morning. By the time I reached it, the caller (with blocked caller ID) hang up. A minute later my (ex-directory!) home number rang. I picked up the phone. The person on the o...
Hailo. Whilst hundreds of companies in the payments space are racing to solve the nonexistent problems (or, at the very least, problems which neither the consumer nor the merchant care much about), Ha...
The most frequently cited and referenced part of PCI DSS relates to protection of cardholder data, mainly card number (PAN), cardholder's name and card expiration date. Now, Dave Birch of Consult Hyp...
When online banking first came on the scene it heralded a new era where customers could check their balance and pay their bills any time, day or night. A few banks integrated it immediately into their...
There’s a very public evolution in the mortgage market as it adapts to new regulatory requirements. At the same time, there is a very quiet revolution in business and consumer technology. Consumers ar...
The financial services industry has a vast reservoir of data on their customers, but is in the infancy stage of utilizing this data for financial or competitive gain. In a study published by the IBM I...
Following a visit to PayExpo at Excel (nothing to write home about, as far as most of the exhibitors are concerned), I attended the FinTech Road Show today which was supposed to showcase some of the m...