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I recommend that you start by looking at the overall vision of what you are trying to achieve. You will want to ensure that this vision ties in with at least one of the broader visions of the company. There are many different reasons why companies implement payment factories (PF), from reducing fraud risk to increasing cash visibility to reducin...
28 August 2013 /payments
With less than 3 weeks left to Sibos I am eagerly awaiting the start of the conference. One of my favorite events within the event is Innotribe - a forum for forward thinking debate, discussion on innovative technologies, learning about new solutions, and collaboration through exchange of ideas. This year I am intrigued by the intersection of big ...
Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group
My note refers to the recent news that Bottomline Technologies has bought Sterci and Simplex http://www.bottomline.co.uk/news/press_releases/bottomline-technologies-acquires-sterci-simplex.html This is my view: The announcement signs that in the messaging hubs space more niche and specialized vendors will be swallowed by large goliaths like Bottom...
27 August 2013 /payments Treasury Management
Tushar Chitra Vice President, Product Strategy and Marketing at Oracle Financial Services Software
Continuing from my earlier post “Mobile Payments: Is Your Bank Putting Its Best Foot Forward?” on how disruptive innovations in mobile communications technology are transforming the payments landscape, I would now like to draw attention to recent developments that are likely to have a significant impact on the adoption of mobile payments technolog...
27 August 2013 /payments Future Finance
When it comes to mobile development, removing complexity will save both time and money. With the spiraling variety of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, this has become a major issue. Here are four reasons to simplify support for the proliferation of mobile devices with a single development platform: 1. It’s Not all About Appl...
26 August 2013 /payments
Eric Smith Senior Pre-Sales Consultant at Dynamic Partners
As innovative payment technologies hit the market, like the PayPal 'check in' service that launched in London this month, it seems that coins and notes are becoming less important. As countries like Sweden appeal for a 'cashless society' and physical cash continues to cost economies vast amounts annually, one needs to ask if cash really will die o...
21 August 2013 /payments
When Tim Berners Lee invented the World Wide Web, I doubt he could have envisaged the multitude of uses for the HTTP protocol and the business transformation it would cause. The disruption to existing business, entirely new business and new modes of human communication that would arise could not have been easily foreseen. In the similar way, a ...
20 August 2013 /payments
David Divitt Senior Fraud Product Manager at VocaLink
The recent article talking about the “Courier Scam” published in The Guardian is an interesting read for those of us in the industry, and an important one for both consumers and banks to pay attention to. While the police’s explanation of the scam seems plausible, I actually think the scam may have been even more sophisticated. The police figured t...
19 August 2013 /security /payments
Bitcoin is rapidly emerging from the primeval swamp land of crypto anarchists to be of significant interest and potential impact to the established payments industry. Now well beyond its nascent stage, the bitcoin network is one of the largest distributed computer network on earth – it would be prudent therefore to ask if it is doing anything us...
16 August 2013 /payments
Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven
Recently I have been embroiled in an interesting debate on Finextra.com regarding the death of cash, or as some may classify it, the premature assassination of cash. Connected with this the threat of BitCoins have recently been extolled throughout the media with the intensity only normally afforded more existential threats such as terrorism or lar...
08 August 2013 /payments /regulation Innovation in Financial Services
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