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A discussion of trends in innovation management within financial institutions, and the key processes, technology and cultural shifts driving innovation.
from EEI-platform news: “We also received confirmation from several of our informal sources in Brussels. Some of them said that there are thoughts to make e-invoicing mandatory. Some others have the ...
Amazon and PayPal have never been friends. Their "mild animosity" goes back to 2003 when Amazon launched services aimed at (small) e-merchants, thus muscling in on the eBay's territory. In A...
I recently had a discussion as to which market represents the biggest business potential for iZettle (I said - the US). If one looked at the current EMV terminal adoptions rates worldwide, it is cle...
Core Banking Systems were built for a different world - a world that gave precedence in banking systems to security, redundancy and reliability and were architected in a product-centric way. Today, th...
This will grow very fast as: 1. Almost all enterprises have signed up for e-invoicing services (201 000 with banks by end 2011 – 85% of all active). All have not yet started to use the services but
I was interested to hear this week that the US consumer watchdog, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has launched a public website that publishes consumer's complaints about credit cards. Intereste...
Successful customer self-service strategies require an understanding of both the ever-shifting technology curve, as well as the timeless funadamentals which motivate human behavior. A recent study by ...
It was announced yesterday that Facebook is going to start phasing out their Facebook Credits system. If you've been watching my commentary over the last few years, I had entertained Facebook becomin...
The time has come for IT cost reduction through business alignment IT budgets are being drastically cut in all sorts of companies. That's not new. But IT is being asked to deliver the similar sort of ...
Confidence is a powerful force. A lack of confidence can be devastating. Have enough confidence and you can achieve absolutely anything. All financial markets are underpinned by confidence. Currency r...
We now live in the age dominated by social media networking channels in which people feel compelled to tell the world intimate details of their daily lives. This inevitably leads to a tendency to over...
If you are a friend of mine and you think I owe you some money, please feel free to take it from my bank account: 10-11-12 98765432. If you were wrong, I'll sort it out myself after you've taken the m...