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Payments systems visions, strategies, trends, pilots, forecasting, and planning for the short-, medium-, and far-term.
I’m hearing more and more conversations mentioning Payments On Behalf Of (POBO) and there seems to be no coincidence that post-SEPA, this concept is coming to the fore. In my last blog, I discussed h...
Scenario: What comes to your mind when you think of the future of electronic payments? Would you use your phone /nfc card/mobile wallet/ or something else? What are the key parameters when you dream a...
Y2020 SWIFT A GLOBAL CLOUD PAYMENT HUB a global reporting hub a central provider of services global reporting and consultation hub Y2014 - SWIFT over 10 thous. banks are users access to 60 HVS - h...
Our industry has become used to the moving of deadlines when it comes to industry initiatives and for some it perhaps creates a certain element of complacency. Speaking to corporates in our market, I ...
The US Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (CFPB) has issued a Proposed Rule which would bring larger US-based nonbank participants of the international money transfer market within the CFPB's su...
Y2014 -Year ZERO D day-February 12, 2014 a new reporting for OTC derivatives takes an radical effect in Europe panic of present unprepared OTC derivatives market participants The lack of understan...
You may have seen the big news today that the European Commission has announced a proposed extension to the SEPA migration deadline of six months, from 1st February to 1st August. Their view is that ...
… doesn’t it? By embracing new technologies, access to services via the Cloud offers corporate treasurers of every size of organisation the opportunity to improve efficiencies and further drive down o...
The new world between 2030 –2050 recalls past transition points—such as 1815, 1919, 1945, or 1989. In this world will exist an absence of global power. The hegemonic power will shift to networks and...
There has been much debate of late on Finextra and indeed everywhere about mobile wallets and mobile payments; with some very diverse opinions. Some argue that uptake of mobile wallets and payments is...
....they know no borders' ran a tweet from SWIFT’s African Regional Conference in Gaborone earlier this year. ‘It is not unusual to have better flight connections between African countries by first g...
As many of us prepare to board flights to Dubai for Sibos, I’m wondering what others are hoping to hear and learn this year. A few things in my mind: It’s SWIFT’s 40th birthday, hurrah! At the London ...