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Retired Member
Last year, my magic crystal balls helped me get 6 out of 7 predictions right. Let's see if I can do even better this year. As a quick summary, my predictions for 2014 are based on proliferation of alternative form factors (wearables and uber-wallets) that combine several interfaces (BLE, NFC and GSM) to disrupt major use cases (mobile payments in p...
16 December 2013 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Aircraft carrier is an awesome sight: it's huge, full of energy, impressive in all respects. It's worth a lot of money too. However, when you see an aircraft carrier on the horizon heading towards you at full speed, that means one certain thing - it is going to crash, due to its maneuvering capabilities (stopping distance, turning circle, etc.) Go...
12 December 2013 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Pat Carroll Founder/Executive Chairman at ValidSoft
Brett King’s recent article on ‘Banking’s new playground’ raises some interesting points as to ‘how Africa will show the way’. Smart phone penetration in Africa is currently less than 15% and projected to be an estimated 40% by 2017. This means that mobile banking and payments service providers will have to service both Smart phones and Feature p...
10 December 2013 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
In recent months, since Google has announced the support for Host Card Emulation (HCE) in their latest Android 4.4 KitKat, we have seen a barage of articles and analyses (some in very reputable publications and blog sites) claiming that NFC is dead with the introduction and arrival of Google's now famous HCE. It is not new nor the first time that...
09 December 2013 /payments
Residents without bank accounts at risk of arrears under new benefits system http://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2013/dec/02/universal-credit-housing-benefit-banking Universal credit will be paid directly into bank accounts, but a worrying number of social housing residents do not yet have one Monday 2 December 2013 07.59 GMT The government...
05 December 2013 /payments
Uri Rivner CEO and Co-Founder at Refine Intelligence
OK folks. You’ve all been hearing about Bitcoin. Your neighbors have been hearing about Bitcoin. Your dog walker has been hearing about Bitcoin. Now it’s time to separate the wheat from the chaff… Learn how to become a successful Bitcoin thief, and make lots of money in this exciting new cybercrime frontier! This practical guide is intended ONLY
04 December 2013 /payments Information Security
Andrea Donafee Managing Director at Cash Management Solutions
It’s called ‘Cyber Monday’, one of the busiest days shopping days of the year and cards failed. Across the country, parents were left unable to pay for their kids Christmas presents, customers were stranded at petrol stations, shoppers at supermarkets were left embarrassed. Many retailers will have noticed an unanticipated shortfall in sales in th...
03 December 2013 /payments /retail
In what is undoubtedly a positive move for consumer safety, the European Central Bank has issued a set of draft recommendations for mobile banking and payments security. However, while agreed standards in an industry that suffered £40m in online fraud losses last year can only be seen as a good thing, mobile banking doesn’t just need to be robust;...
03 December 2013 /payments
Colin Weir CEO at Moroku
What a fabulous week I have just had in Kenya. Home to many things, it is the current home of mobile money. Ask any Kenyan what mobile money is and how useful it is and you will get a very clear answer. If you asked the same question in the CBD of London or Sydney and you will struggle to get answers as accurate and consistent. There are plenty of...
01 December 2013 /payments
CMSpi is concerned that a decision on the introduction of polymer banknotes in the United Kingdom might be made without a suitable understanding of the costs and benefits of the change. We would like to see a framework which analyses and assesses these before deciding whether or not the fixed costs and operational challenges associated with polymer...
26 November 2013 /payments /regulation
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