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Innovation in Financial Services

A discussion of trends in innovation management within financial institutions, and the key processes, technology and cultural shifts driving innovation.

Chris Principe

Chris Principe CEO at APB, Inc.

Whales need Plankton!

Whales need Plankton! There are banks today that are expanding their trade business with additional supply chain financing activates and many more considering adding SCF. The results for them are good with their best corporate clients taking advantage of these added services. Unfortunately, the supply chain financing services are not being offered...

Jim Marous

Jim Marous Publisher at The Financial Brand

Innovation Lacking in U.S. and U.K.

For the third year in a row, I attended the BAI-FinacleGlobal Banking Innovation Awards ceremony that takes place as part of the BAI Retail Delivery Conference. This year's program, which recognizes innovation excellence in the banking industry, drew more than 200 nominations from institutions based in over 30 countries. The two overriding impress...

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5 myths about Google's HCE

Hardly a day goes by without someone getting excited about Google's Host Card Emulation (HCE). Media is selling it as the "Open Sesame" for mobile payments. Is that true? Executive summary: IMHO, b***cks! HCE is a good tool for specific use cases, but it's not - by far - the Holy Grail. Here's why. To understand what HCE is all about, let...

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If This, Then That

Have you IFTTT’d lately? Well, if you haven’t, you will be soon. You can forget about SnapChat and Pocket. They were so 3 months ago. If you’re not familiar with the app, IFTTT is a service that allows users to create a series of commands that get invoked when a predefined rule is met. Think of it is a virtual ‘If this alarm clock rings, then ...

Pat Carroll

Pat Carroll Founder/Executive Chairman at ValidSoft

Standing Still on Security Inhibits Development in Payments

I read an interesting piece earlier last week on imrg.org (the website of the UK Online Retail Association) arguing that consumer concerns over security could inhibit the adoption of many new payment methods and technologies. It said that despite dramatic increases in technologies that would allow for smoother and more convenient payments, consu

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A condom with a hole

Google made waves last week with their announcement about Host Card Emulation (HCE) solution that allows, inter alia, to "emulate" EMV without requiring any secure element (SE). Oh my... Google's own source claims that "Android HCE emulates ISO/IEC 7816 based smart cards". Well, ISO 7816 is a standard for contact (!) cards tha...

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Brett King

Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven

Why Smartphones will kill Credit Card Rewards

Credit cards are expensive. According to BankRate.com the average US annual percentage rate (APR) charges on credit cards is 15.35%[1], but that’s down in recent years. During the financial crisis some US-based credit card APRs went as high as 39.6%[2] as banks like Bank of American tried to compensate for increasing risk, or unwind high-risk cre...

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Chris Principe

Chris Principe CEO at APB, Inc.

Trick or Trade !

Trick or Trade ! Halloween is really one of my favorite times of year, with the kids in costume and the free chocolate, what's not to like. Thinking and planning this morning the strategy for this evenings Trick or Treat rounds, it dawned on me who in our industry is playing Trick or Trade? So, with a little help from my friendly Zombies and Teenw...

Chris Principe

Chris Principe CEO at APB, Inc.

Putting Out vs Putting In

Putting Out vs Putting In The ideas of Putting Out Software versus Putting In Software are two radically different approaches and goals. Especially for financial software; the difference is the banks internal needs to the software vendor's external goals. So let me be clear; Bankers Put Software IN and Vendors Put Software OUT, got it. There is a m...

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Brett King

Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven

Why digital revenue is absolutely critical for banks

Mobile use is exploding in the banking scene. If you are a retail bank today in the developed world and you don’t have an app for your customers, you are increasingly becoming an exception. Certainly almost every bank in the world today has some form of Internet website and Internet banking capability. However, for most banks, the web and mobile a...

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