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Sriram Natarajan

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Will Twitter founder Square Visa - MasterCard?

Further to my earlier post on Internet based payment applications, it looks like 2010 is going to be the year of alternate payments. We can see the high level of interest in the subject. Jack Dorsey - co founder of the omnipresent Twitter - has come up with a free Payment Dongle called Square. You can see his demonstration here - http://www.youtu...

26 December 2009 /payments

White Collar crime now in 'Starbucks' league!

The latest Pricewaterhouse Coopers Global Economic crime survey released last week confirms our worst fears. The stinging economic recession has taken economic crime to the 'classes'. Middle and upper managers are 'forced' to take to crime to sustain their lifestyles cultivated in boom times. With the recession taking a heavy toll of staff leading...

22 November 2009 /security /regulation

Card payment networks - be afraid - very afraid.......

We are now at the cliched inflection point on payment innovation. In recent months, many of the goliaths of the online world are offering their own payment channels - Amazon, GooglePay, PayPal - that may spillover beyond the virtual world they dominate. Now take a scenario - you go to a retail outlet and instead of swiping your credit card on the P...

16 November 2009 /payments /retail

Watch lists!

There are so many watch lists maintained across the world. The FATF maintains one, FINCEN, and so does Interpol. Reportedly the FBI keeps getting 1600 new 'suggestions' everyday for its list! See here http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/31/AR2009103102141.html?hpid=moreheadlines We need a comparable list of Internet fraudst...

01 November 2009 /security /regulation

World economics explained!

I don't know who to give credit for this hilarious piece on world economy; but this one landed in my inbox and cracked me up: "It is the month of August, on the shores of the Black Sea. It is raining, and the little town looks totally deserted. It is tough times, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit. Suddenly, a rich tourist com...

27 September 2009 /security /regulation

Nokia Money - new world currency?

At last, the mobile telecom industry has come up with a credible challenge to the banking industry. For many years now, mobile operators and MSPs have been dabbling with financial products and payment services. Now, mobile goliath Nokia has launched 'Nokia Money' - the new world currency? Nokia claims that there are only 1.6 Billion bank accounts t...

29 August 2009 /payments

Line up here - to be compensated for Internet Fraud!

Internet scamsters are breaking new boundaries. Now they are offering compensation for victims of Internet Fraud! As I have always held - the scamsters are far ahead of the pack in creativity. To make you feel even better; the compensation comes from no less than the UN General Secretary! Check out this email that landed in my inbox: "The UNI...

09 August 2009 /regulation

IPhone our way out of recession?

Over the past few months, a growing phenomena of amazing Iphone applications seem to be quietly taking over the world. Some of these apps are crazy, weird and some downright wacky! Sample these - an Iphone application to monitor your performance in bed! Iphone app that warns you against sex offenders in your neighbourhood! These are some of the lat...

05 August 2009

Isn't there anything untainted anymore?

There are various guilt trips that people across the world have - vegans on animal cruelty, 'greenies' ,.... and now looks like even the hi tech items we use on a day to day basis are tainted with blood. Well, at least that's what this news item on Time says - http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1912594,00.html It looks like the stuff th...

25 July 2009 /regulation

Laundering money - the sporting way

Money Laundering - as we know - is one of the most thriving businesses the world over. In these troubled times, it is all the more prevalent with newer players and more creative means cropping up every day. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has come out with an interesting report on money laundering through football. See here http://www.fatf-g...

15 July 2009 /regulation

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