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Brett King

Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven

The new, new normal at SIBOS this year

Last year I commented at SIBOS that there was finally the realization that things weren't returning to normal - a new normal was emerging. This was a common theme emerging from the myriad of discussions and debates over how the industry would emerge from the wreckage of the Global Financial Crisis. In their typical prophetical style, the Innotribe ...

/payments /retail Innovation in Financial Services

Brett King

Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven

The Real Threat of the Telco-Bank

The announcement that the Canadian carrier Rogers Telecom has applied for a banking license should hardly come as a shock to the retail banking fraternity. There is already a plethera of mobile carriers fully engaged in mobile payments right now, from Safaricom in Kenya, Orange (with Barclays) in the UK, the ISIS collaboration in the US, LG Telec...

/payments Innovation in Financial Services

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Barcode readers and mobile e-invoices

During summer I was toying around idea how mobile payments could be combined with barcode readers. Some of my friends have with their iPhone online banking app. They can scan new paper payments with camera and barcode. When scanning picture they upload document info to banking app and pay. It seems to work fine with them. For this idea, I started ...

/payments Online Banking

Brett King

Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven

Will the US be the last developed economy to go cashless?

Although it is a long-time off yet, we can now envisage a time when most of the developed world, and indeed most of the developing world will no longer deal in hard currency. There are a number of drivers for this: 1. Impact of mobile payments 2. Tighter money laundering requirements, and 3. Cost of physical handling versus electronic transactions ...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Domestic issue - false picture

We often come across statements that e-invoicing is a domestic issue - the cross border part is so small (some 5%) that we do not really need to care. This is a false picture as can be arrived at by just looking at the volumes of cross-border trade. The reason for this misunderstanding is that enterprises have to establish local subsidiaries and t...

/payments Innovation in Financial Services

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Consumer behaviour in a mobile world

This blog was created while Mark was working at The Logic Group. Once again, my thoughts turned to mobile transactions this week. This was off the back of reading that mobile conversion rates for a retail website are 25% higher than there main site! How can this be so? How are so many people viewing an item on their mobile, and buying it in one si...

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Recruit for attitude, train for experience

Recruiting great salespeople from outside the payments industry can be a winning strategy. But there’s an obvious problem: they have no experience of the industry. How do you help new hires to learn the knowledge they need to be effective quickly? I work a lot in the payments industry, and I’ve seen this strategy work very well for merchant acquire...

/payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

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Regulation: overcoming the challenge

In Europe, most banks have already implemented Basel II. The next step is complying with Basel III, which has significant add-ons compared to its predecessors – including much higher capital and liquidity requirements – specifically shining a torch on the so called global systemically important financial institutions (GSiFis). In the US, the Basel...

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The End of Paper Checks? Clues from Across the Pond

People often ask me, “Hey Mike, when do you think checks will disappear as a form of payment?” This is a good question; not just because companies like mine are focused on helping other companies Leave the Check Behind, but because checks are costly; they consume natural resources; they are subject to fraud; and they are the most inefficient form o...

/payments Innovation in Financial Services

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Profit improvement: customer focus, operational efficiency

The financial world is searching for ways onto a path of stable growth. However, there are challenges along the way. Trust among customers – both retail and corporate – has yet to be fully regained. The depth, breadth and frequency of regulation is increasing as new bodies such as the EBA come into clearer focus. Revenues, and therefore profits, a...

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