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A discussion of trends in innovation management within financial institutions, and the key processes, technology and cultural shifts driving innovation.
Close to midnight Bloomberg quoted "two people familiar with the matter" and announced that "Misys, has attracted interest from buyout firms and would consider alternatives if they deem...
The debate about NFC and mobile payments rages on. There's questions over which handset platform to support, which devices are certified, the lack of real NFC standards, how to enable the secure compo...
18 months ago, as I commented the 100 Software Vendors from American Bankers, Misys occupied the position #31 as technology provider to financial services and it receives 44% of its revenue from the f...
Extracting value for customers based on this data will obviously be of increasing importance also in payments - especially extended payments. The first step is to see to it that data is sent and kept ...
Saturday, February 11, 2012The importance of WHY Many of you have surely seen this presentation by Simon Sinek http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html. He very el
The Durbin Amendment was introduced to limit ‘unfair’ debit card interchange fees that were imposed on merchants. The goal of the legislation was to create a more competitive payments environment, whi...
According to Reuters, Temenos and its UK competitor Misys said on Tuesday had agreed to a number of key terms on a possible all-share merger that could create one of the world's largest standalone fin...
Today's the day. Finovate Europe 2012 has arrived and I’ve just completed my demo. Today is proving to be a fantastic showcase for innovation happening throughout the financial services industry. And ...
The Bank of England has JUST released their latest semi-annual FX turnover survey results for October 2011. Highlights Daily FX vols $1,972bln, down 3% on April 2011, some 17% higher on the year ...
I have always believed projects can be as easy or hard as your organisation wants them to be. Projects are a great mirror of the environment in which they are delivered in. If you have the right wor...
There's a great deal of discussion and debate around what will ultimately happen to banking as a result of the massive changes in connectivity, utility, mobility and customer experience taking place r...
Fraud is a problem. CIFAS, the UK’s Fraud Prevention Service, noted a 9% increase in overall fraud from 2010 to 2011. Startlingly, there was an 18% rise in facility takeover fraud –when a criminal ob...