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Can Municipalities Become Banks And Payment Processors?

Everyone has to pay and pay. The local council is the beneficiary of all sorts of payments from residents. Parking, rates, fines, permits etc. Rather than use several third parties to gather all these payments could councils become payment system providers? Would you prefer to sign up with your local council once - to make a payment anytime for par...

/payments /retail Whatever...

Elton Cane

Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia

Judge warns bank on record retention

The full text of the Job vs Halifax judgement makes for interesting reading. Both claimant and defendant called some well qualified witnesses, from Cambridge University and APACS. The bank produced a transaction log that it says indicated Job's disputed transactions were handled according to the Chip and PIN process, and did not default to a magnet...

/security /payments Transaction Fraud Systems and Analysis

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Is pre-paid cards a new invention ?

We have 3 types of payment cards 1) Pay before (Prepaid) 2) Pay Now (Debit) 3) Pay After. (Credit) Debit and Credit cards have a long history – but it seems that the Prepaid Card is some kind invention – but is it really that – or is it just “old wine” in a new bottle (not to says that old wine is not good) Pay Before – prepaid car

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Cedric Pariente

Cedric Pariente Stanford Certified Project Manager at EFFI Consultants

Crisis and Credit Situation in France

The situation in France is pretty unique in these times of crisis. Here is how credit is structured and how French people see it and use it. CREDIT IN FRANCE What is the credit situation in France and how do French people see the credit? Well, as a matter of fact granting of credit in France has always been strict. Actually it’s already been like ...

/payments Transaction Fraud Systems and Analysis

Bo Harald

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

Santa delivering...

I wrote a letter to Santa last December and he seems to have taken it seriously at least with the most demanding present: "The second wish is a standard - more precisely a common and global standard that will fulfill both the needs of SMEs (being easy to use) and their frequently very large and sometimes bully trading partners who have a need...

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Paul Penrose

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

Time to scrap cash?

With the spectre of negative interest rates hoving into view, is it time to rethink the value of cash as a medium of exchange? Failure to do so will lead inevitably to currency hoarding as savers turn their assets into cash to avoid the deflationary effects of a move to negative interest charges. In his maverecon blog at the FT, Wiliam Buiter, a f...

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ISO20022: Banks are convinced but are Corporates?

In the other part of my virtual life, I have written about the push toward ISO20022--both the positives and the negatives around the new standard as well as the lack of a business case directed toward corporates. So if these comments seem a little familiar--don't say I didn't warn you. Because I still think the issues that I raised are valid and s...

/payments Innovation in Financial Services

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Mobile Financial Services Hampered By Oversold Networks

To say that I am an evangelist for mobile financial services would be an understatement, but I confess to experiencing purely personal delight at the pace of mobile financial services. That pace is slow. I've recently had a quick African immersion and have seen that the real story on the ground is far from rosy for the current mobile financial serv...

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SWIFT Changes for 2009-MT202COV

Currently the messages MT103 / 103+ are used to effect a customer credit transfer and the MT 202 is used for a financial institution transfer. In order to speed up the payment process for customer credit transfers in some cases an additional cover payment message (MT202) is sent to an intermediary bank whereas the underlying customer credit tr...

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Bo Harald

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

It is not the recession..

It is not the recession - it is the demographic challenge - not enough people in working age -as demonstrated in this EU-produced chart: http://boharald.blogspot.com/2008/05/need-to-automate-away-routines.html

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