4860 Results from /payments
Pat Carroll Founder/Executive Chairman at ValidSoft
“If only I would have known” is a phase that Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton and possibly as many as 100 celebrities and notable personalities are likely saying after a reported massive breach of Apple’s iCloud service resulted in the unauthorized access to, and release of, personal information and photos. While the FBI, dozens of security vendors an...
05 September 2014 /security /payments Information Security
Nanda Kumar CEO at SunTec Business Solutions
George Osborne’s announcement that the Government is to explore the regulation of Bitcoins will have had an ominous ring to it for those attracted to the virtual currency precisely because it is not currently covered by any regulation. For the rest of us, however, the announcement should be welcomed. Osborne’s focus on the UK financial services se...
04 September 2014 /payments
Craig Ramsey Head of Real-Time Payments at ACI Worldwide
2014 finally saw the completion of the SEPA process that was some ten years in the making. As of the 1st August, the majority of European Banks are now compliant with SEPA guidelines. So, what does this mean for banks now living in a post-SEPA world? In theory, banks should now be in a position to reap the benefits of years of compliance to meet t...
02 September 2014 /payments /regulation
James Piggot Product Analyst at Finastra
With regards to the BBVA linked story regarding their HCE enabled mobile App, the BBVA Innovation Center promises the ability to link accounts or existing physical cards with the wallet eliminating the need to re-charge the wallet as transactions can be debited directly to the linked acount. The customer will receive a virtual card for their walle...
02 September 2014 /payments
Retired Member
Mobile payments have been a major talking point in Australia and around the world for a number of years. Hype around trials, joint ventures and roll outs have come and gone and the feeling of frustration that all of this effort and expense has not achieved mass-market deployments has grown. Google changed all of this for the Australian marketplace...
Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group
This is a very short note I felt compelled write to share my sense of frustration. I am a strong believer in the Peer-to-Peer concept and business models. However I see an indiscriminate use of the "P2P" term for all sorts of solutions and offerings, with very little (to be generous) relation to the true objectives (and caveats) of P2P: ...
29 August 2014 /payments Transaction Banking
Invoice fraud is one of those topics that most CFOs are aware of, but one which few ever think they will really be targeted by. You know who your suppliers are, and you have stringent policies in place for the creation of new accounts, so it would be extremely difficult for an unknown invoice to slip through the net. However, it’s perhaps the invo...
28 August 2014 /payments /regulation
Ever since Google announced the availability of Host Card Emulation (HCE) in the last version of Android, the discussion in the world of mobile payments has taken a very interesting turn. Banks that were previously forced to work with an overly complex technology and large and lengthy integration projects are suddenly in position to compete on a l...
27 August 2014 /payments
The Bacs 3-day payment processing cycle just isn’t fast enough for a lot of businesses these days, with many now relying on Faster Payments to meet their needs. When it was launched in 2008, Faster Payments was the first new payments service to be introduced in the UK for more than 20 years. Faster Payments is a speedy, secure and cost effective wa...
26 August 2014 /payments /startups
The dust hasn't settled yet even though it's been 34 years since the birth (1981) of electronic payments. CheckFree was the "baby." Peter Kight was the "father." As with other banktechs, during other developing eras, there are too many vendors already in this relatively new space. Remember, the idea of computer-based techno...
26 August 2014 /payments
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