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Capgemini Consulting and RBS recently released WPR 2015 it is quite comprehensive study of the manner in which payments industry is growing globally. Below mentioned is my takeaway (Also added a few points from my side) from the report. 1. Asia is the driver of Global Non Cash transaction Growth: Global Volume’s reached 357.9 billion (2013) 2. Bank...
13 October 2015 /payments
The objective of this 3 part series is to examine in brief the barriers and motivators for the key players in India’s (the author believes it has elements that can stand true for any economy that intends to go cashless) Journey towards a cashless society. In part 1 and 2 can be read at Finextra Blogs. Business (Issuers/Acquirers): The estimates...
08 October 2015 /payments
The objective of this 3 part series is to examine in brief the barriers and motivators for the key players in a Journey towards a cashless society. In part 1 the role of retailer in this journey was shared and can be checked at part 1 in blogs section @ Finextra. Consumer : Cash “The King” the acceptance ubiquity makes it the first and foremost ...
29 September 2015 /payments
The objective of this 3 part series is to examine in brief the barriers and motivators for the key players in (the author believes it has elements that can stand true for any economy that intends to go cashless) Journey towards a cashless society (India as a example). As per the annual report of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for 2013-14, the amount ...
26 September 2015 /payments
Barry Kislingbury Lead Solutions Consultant at ACI Worldwide
Global real time interoperability is in our sights – immediate payments plus the industry consensus that ISO 20022 is the standard ‘de jour’ are paving the way towards a harmonised digital banking future. The first draft of the ‘rule book’ was launched earlier this year by the ISO 20022 Real-Time Payments Group, outlining the correct flows and lan...
18 September 2015 /payments /regulation
Miloslav Hoschek Freelancer at e-Silk Road, NGO
The era after 2020 will be more volatile and full of drastic changes. What are the strategic areas for banking payment industry? Should payments be as quick as e-mails or messaging with smart phone applications? Banks must develop the faster and cheaper infrastructures. A new technology and protocols could provide banks with a competitive techno...
27 July 2015 /payments
Financial services can be a risky business. For corporate treasurers it is listed as yet another of their “key priorities”, particularly as they become more involved in the strategic decision making processes within their organisations. Risk is linked to many factors over which business has anything from some to little or no control, for example...
26 June 2015 /payments
It is not very often in our industry that we get the opportunity to say there is fantastic news for banks, however that is exactly what the new ‘World Class Payments’ project, instigated by the UK Payments Council and Payment Services Regulator (PSR) is. The project has been launched to review the UK’s payment schemes, looking forward 10 years to 2...
18 June 2015 /payments /retail
Now there’s a downer of an opening question if ever there was one to an IT sales person. All fresh faced, enthused by all the great news he had to impart and more than a dozen reasons why his company was successful and should be the vendor of choice. He had managed to secure time with all the right people in the company who would be involved in th...
27 March 2015 /payments
It seems that more and more today, in the world of financial services technology, revolution is very much disrupting the path of evolution that we have tended to follow. Financial institutions and indeed the providers of technology on which the industry runs, continue to be under pressure to get it right and deliver technology solutions that meet t...
23 February 2015 /payments
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