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Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
Here at Finextra we are all about community and one of our favouite communities is Global Transaction Banking. So, as an end of year treat, we have gathered a group of industry thought leaders to gaze into their collective crystal ball, via a live interactive webcast, to look ahead to what is in store for GTB in 2014. Audience members will be abl...
26 November 2013 /payments Future Finance
Retired Member
From PayPal to Square, Braintree to Bitcoin, the payments business continues to flex and morph like the orange gloop in a lava lamp. Every week, I see at least two hot new technologies promising to radically transform the way we buy and sell. The success of every one of them depends on engagement from consumers, traders and, usually, the financial...
25 November 2013 /payments
Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group
This article was first published on gtnews. Corporate treasurers and their use of treasury management systems Corporate treasurers fully agree they can (and must) count more in their company. The financial crisis - now turned into economic crisis in many European countries - has elevated the corporate treasurer to the status of information steward ...
23 November 2013 /payments Treasury Management
Top five money management tips October 2, 2013 The Payments Council has today published a guide - as part of its Pay Your Way campaign - for people affected or concerned by the introduction of Universal Credit. The guide, which includes information about the changes to the benefits system also clearly detai...
23 November 2013 /payments Private Equity Investing in Financial Technology
Andre Malinowski Head of International Business at Computop GmbH
The multi-channel world has seen tremendous development in the past decades. During the last 20 years, the e-commerce market has expanded and is still growing. New global acquirers and innovative localized payment schemes are continually emerging. While developed markets continue to command a significant share of global online retail sales, they s...
22 November 2013 /payments
Hardly a day goes by without someone getting excited about Google's Host Card Emulation (HCE). Media is selling it as the "Open Sesame" for mobile payments. Is that true? Executive summary: IMHO, b***cks! HCE is a good tool for specific use cases, but it's not - by far - the Holy Grail. Here's why. To understand what HCE is all about, let...
22 November 2013 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
… doesn’t it? By embracing new technologies, access to services via the Cloud offers corporate treasurers of every size of organisation the opportunity to improve efficiencies and further drive down operational costs. At SWIFT we are very well aware that any change to the way we do business brings with it a dose of healthy scepticism. New services...
21 November 2013 /payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
It seems that there are over 100 million ‘selfies’ (people posting pictures of themselves) on instagram – a trend that is continuing to rise. The prepaid card is also growing with its own version of the selfie, with a half the US adult population having bought a prepaid card and an increasing number for their own use, showing the market has create...
20 November 2013 /payments
Craig Ramsey Head of Real-Time Payments at ACI Worldwide
The fact online banking hits the 30 year landmark this week may come as a surprise to some, but as with any 30 year old, it has grown and changed significantly since its birth. The technology has come on leaps and bounds to a point where we’ve seen the move from home-banking terminals, to dial-up via a PC, to broadband, and now the modern cloud via...
19 November 2013 /payments
Lee Britton Commercial Director at Prepaid Financial Services (PFS)
Payments home by overseas workers reached a staggering $534 billion (£358.7 billion) last year and look set to top $685 billion (£460.1 billion) by 2015, according to the World Bank. With such a vast amount of payments today being conducted across borders, there is a real need for more efficient ways to make payments. In Western Europe, despite a ...
18 November 2013 /payments
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