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Keeping safe in a digital world

Alastair Paterson, CEO of Digital Shadows, explains who the service is targeted towards, its purpose and its relationship to European data protection laws.

25 March 2014

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Finding space in the crowded mPOS market

Cristina Bonaccurso, CEO of Ringpay, discusses the lessons Ringpay learnt from Square, why it uses barcodes and not NFC technology, and the importance of design in payment applications.

17 March 2014

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Customer behaviour and the digital age

Travers Clarke-Walker, MD at Fiserv discusses how banks can create an all-encompassing strategy to manage customer channels.

11 March 2014

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Using Twitter to discover market trends

Paul Hawtin, CEO of sentiment-analysis investment managers Cayman Atlantic, talks about the firm's social-media basis, the kind of data being used and the returns it's seeing.

06 March 2014

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What will it take to crack mobile commerce?

Hooman Mazaheri, CEO, Europe at Znap, explains why it will take more than just a payments app to crack the mobile commerce market.

04 March 2014

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How does Orange Cash work?

Carole Le Cunff, head of communications, NFC and payments programme, Orange, discusses the Orange Cash pre-paid mobile app and demos a transaction.

28 February 2014

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Barclaycard enters the mPOS fray

Paulette Rowe, MD of global payment acceptance, and James Gardiner, mPOS product manager, explain what makes Barclaycard Anywhere different, the strategy for mPOS, and what's holding back wide-scale deployment.

27 February 2014

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What's the SmartPass strategy?

Ibo Sanz, in-country mobile commerce director, Vodafone Spain, talks about the Vodafone SmartPass strategy, the recent Host Card Emulation announcements and partnerships with La Caixa and Visa.

26 February 2014

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What problem does HCE solve for mobile payments?

James Anderson, group head emerging payments, MasterCard Worldwide and Albert Figueras Moreno, credit cards and consumer finance manager, Banco Sabadell discuss Host Card Emulation and the future of mobile payments.

25 February 2014

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Visa at Mobile World Congress

Mary Carol Harris, director of mobile at Visa discusses where the firm is focusing in mobile payments, what the industry has achieved so far, and ambitions for 2014.

25 February 2014

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Acceleration of mobile payments in Europe

Wolfgang Seibert, senior business leader, VP, non-traditional customers and business development and Milan Gauder, head of emerging payments Europe, both of MasterCard discuss the integration of cards and mobile for payments in Central Europe.

25 February 2014

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Bank Audi teaches Lebanon how to use less cash

Randa Bdeir, assistant general manager, group head of e-payment solutions and card services at Bank Audi, discusses the launch of a new mobile payment service, linked to credit cards, that aims to replace cash for low value payments in Lebanon.

25 February 2014

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The acceleration of digital money

Citi released its Digital Money Readiness Index at its second annual Digital Money Symposium in London at the end of January. Here Greg Baxter, MD, Citi global head of digital strategy talks about how the Index influences the bank's overall digital strategy, the importance of governments in accelerating digital currencies and the validity and future of crypto-currencies such as bitcoin.

07 February 2014

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Monitise and Visa: Convergence is the future

Monitise CEO Al Lukies and Visa Europe's Chief Commercial Officer Steve Perry discuss the partnership between the two firms and convergence as a way of delivering mobile wallets and digital payments.

05 February 2014

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Arguments for a smarter mortgage market in the UK

Michael Davison, Banking and Financial Markets, IBM and Kieran Colville, Smarter Workforce,IBM discuss how the UK mortgage industry is poised for growth and how focusing on human capital will enable a more prudent and efficient lending market, with reduced conduct risk and better outcomes for customers.

28 January 2014

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First Data needs to act like a start up

John Elkins, president, International Markets, First Data looks at the pace of change in the payments industry and how that change impacts the company's own strategies for growth.

17 December 2013

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Maximising Regulatory Data

Will Cawthorne, head of sales, Impendium Systems, looks at the thorny issue of finding meaning in big data. Originally published on Finextra.com on:

16 December 2013

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Focus on the real-time customer

Giles Nelson, VP at Software AG, discusses the changing needs of the retail banking customer, how banks access and handle their data and the real meaning behind 'omnichannel'.

03 December 2013

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What's affecting the banking industry?

Penny Hembrow, head of banking at CGI, discusses trends in retail and commercial banking, the effects of generation Y and its implications on IT.

20 November 2013

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Crowd commerce on Level 42

Francesco Gatti and Francesco Fumagalli, co-founders and managing directors of Crowdrooster, which officially launches on Nov 14th, discuss the evolution of crowdfunding and the start-up's graduation from the Level 39 FinTech accelerator space to the high growth space at Canary Wharf.

07 November 2013