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How global trends affecting either fintech-companies themselves and clients

Operational Director of Canopus Innovative Technologies, management analyst and colleague Vitaly Lobanov made an joint overview of global trends affecting either fintech-companies themselves or clients of fintech-companies operating in payment business. You can see presentation attached or click if you can't see the picture of presentation below. ...

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Tom Hay

Tom Hay Principal Consultant at Payment Systems Europe

Beyond Babel: A New Blueprint for Global Instant Payments

Fragmentation has become a very real challenge for the industry as instant payment schemes are being implemented on a country by country basis, and each country is doing it differently. Like the Tower of Babel, the vision of global faster payments is imperilled by mutual incomprehension. National not international There are several reasons why sch...

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Overcoming apathy in banking

Brand loyalty isn’t what it used to be in financial services. Gone are the days where bank managers were considered trusted advisors and confidants to customers. They’ve been replaced by mobile apps and digital services designed to boost customer convenience. Combined with moves to facilitate faster account switching behaviour, the sector is certa...

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Daniel Szmukler

Daniel Szmukler Director at EBA

A look back at EBAday 2016

The 11th edition of EBAday in Milan broke a new record with more than 1,000 delegates and a once more sold-out exhibition floor. Thematically, last year’s trends continued as was visible in the 19-session program where instant payments, PSD2, open APIs and cryptotechnology were high up on the agenda. The exhibitors also picked up on these topics e

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John Cant

John Cant Managing Director at MPI Europe Ltd

Imagine a miniature financial crime fighter in every router

It is well known that financial criminals are adept at finding the weakest link in a bank’s, or the banking systems, defence to attack. They can often do this by avoiding the immediate defensive measures in applications and getting transactions into the banks payments systems, even on a trusted network such as Swift. Once on the network, criminals...

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Seven Things I Learned About Blockchain

Last month I attended the excellent blockchain conference, Consensus 2016, in New York. The theme for the conference was "Making Blockchain Real". Day 1 proceedings were a little distracted by the breaking news that Satoshi Nakamoto was finally outed. However on the floor of the conference, most thought Craig Wright's claim false, as it ...

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Social shoppers: why consumer attitudes to cash matter

"Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does." - Warren Buffett Cash has been around for over 3,000 years. It's part of any culture's identity. In fact, you can chart the rise and fall of many civilizations just by looking at the size of coins they minted. Today, the barbarians at cash's gates are technological ones. In 2016, you c...

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Bo Harald

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

Up and down - from the e-invoice

Just back from the Exchange conference I keep pondering how we can get a shared view of how to automate administrative processes. Today - especially in the US - it still is large enterprise driven procurement that drives e-invoicing. How can this evolve into a good solution for SMEs = send to all from your own e-bank or other solution instead of ...

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How marginal gains will set you up for gold medal payments success

Not so long ago, the British cycling team was not just uncompetitive but even described as “laughing stock.” Today, they’re world-beaters. And the secret to that success is not the sudden discovery of new talent. Rather, it is by taking a highly granular approach to training and preparation – focusing on making “marginal gains” in multiple areas,...

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MasterCard and VocaLink: Welcome to the future of card schemes?

Mobile payments, blockchain, regulation: Card schemes face many challenges but still have time to reposition themselves to maximum advantage if they know where to look For more than 50 years card networks have played a central role in the growth of electronic payments in the U.K. and around the world. As the electronic payment ecosystem grew, Vis...

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