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Shift Operational Focus to Strategic Management of Payables

Today’s environment, corporates are able to process various types of payment transactions and submit them to the Bank for processing of Cash Management transactions. An Integrated Payments platform with a User Interface is offered to corporates where the customer can process an Integrated Payment File with multiple payment types such as Electronic...

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Mobile payments and Contexts: changing checkout

Mobile payments are changing the checkout experience. This is valid for both in store transactions and for online ones. Payments, once limited to passive instruments like cash, checks and cards, can now be carried out with smartphones, which pack technologies that can be used for a variety of purposes, including marketing and identification purp

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Retail payments: Making the seconds count

It’s a common scene: a customer waiting patiently for a card transaction to be processed. In most cases it only takes a few seconds, but it can certainly seem longer. While some staff may try and fill this time with chatter, merchants should be working harder to make these moments count to actively build a relationship and engender customer loyalt...

/payments /retail Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

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The Looming Crisis for UK Credit Unions

In the wake of a recent Citizens Advice study* which revealed that that nine out of ten benefit recipients believe they will be unable to cope when Universal Credit is introduced, there is now an urgent need for both the Department of Work and Pensions and Credit Unions across the UK to consult with the e-money industry in order to gain a better u...

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Google Wallet: Missed the Birthday Party?

Hello Google Wallet, your birthday was 2 months ago. I followed your birth on Youtube. You're the reason why I started to get interested in mobile payment. Before you came on stage, paying with mobile was something for children, such as downloading ringtones. Did I miss your birthday party? Or was it like this: You did not feel like celebrating. Y...

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Mobile wallets forgot the merchant

Financial institutions, venture capitalists and any organization that believes in mobile payments are busy building their vision for a mobile wallet. However, the majority of these groups are building a wallet and customer experience without giving any thought to the true enablers of a mobile wallet. This group is what I refer to as the merchants,...

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Why NFC on iPhone doesn't matter. At all.

The rumours about iPhone and NFC are being circulated again. That caused a new wave of excitement within the NFC community where NFC-enabled iPhone is seen as the white knight. Yet, if (IF!) Apple introduces NFC on iPhone that won't change much, if anything at all. Here's why. The largest and the most compelling use case for NFC on a mobile phone ...

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The move to real time payments

One of the trends in the payments world today is the move to ‘real time’ payments. A good example of this move is the Faster Payments Service in the United Kingdom. The Faster Payments Service, launched in May 2008, is an initiative to drastically reduce the time for processing, clearing and settlement of domestic payments. Under the country’s AC...

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Amit Agrawal

Amit Agrawal NA at in transit

Bitmessage : Communication from scratch

Bitmessage is a trustless, decentralized peer-to-peer messaging protocol (very similar to Bitcoin). It is a unified system that encrypts every message. It keeps secure the members of the communication: not only is the content of messages protected, but the sender and receiver of those messages is kept secret as well. Advantages of Bitmessage : 1....

/payments Banking Architecture

Pat Carroll

Pat Carroll Founder/Executive Chairman at ValidSoft

Privacy and security dont have to be mutually exclusive

I was interested to read the article ‘Brits relaxed about banks mining data to fight fraud’. It provides an interesting perspective on the growing debate regarding the need for strong data privacy as well as strong transaction security, particularly within the finance sector, and especially as the means by which we conduct our banking and transac...

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