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Financial inNOvation

Following a visit to PayExpo at Excel (nothing to write home about, as far as most of the exhibitors are concerned), I attended the FinTech Road Show today which was supposed to showcase some of the most disruptive financial technologies in the UK startup world. [Yawn] I don't want to sound like a broken record, but 99% of companies in the payment...

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Payment Factories and Global Cash Visibility-Part One

I have discussed how Payment Factories can help improve efficiency by centralising payments. I’d like to examine in more detail how a Payment Factory can improve cash visibility across an organisation. When people hear the term “Payment Factory,” their immediate assumption is that this surely must be just about payments. And they’re mostly right, a...

/payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

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Banking - Mission: Impossible in disguise?

Bankers have a reputation of being very conservative and well, frankly, boring. As an ex-banker I’d like to defend this and say that rather than the image of grey suited accountants, they should be seen as heroes like Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible. After all – bankers are in the risk business – and are taking risks every day. Here in Malaysia,...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Demise of cash in Finland

Steady progress

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

e-id and e-commerce payment volumes growing in Finland

Observations: 1. the public sector is the main user of banks e-id services and the growth continues as bank e-id also can be used for electronic signatures 2. e-commerce transactions are real time payments and showed very good growth in 2012

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

e-invoicing growing fast in banks

Observations: 1. banks have signed up 230 000 enterprises (mostly for b2b) - almost all active ones in the country 2. volumes grew very fast in 2012 but will accelerate this year

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

e-banking STILL growing in Finland

Observations: 1. 5,4 m citizens have made 5,8 m e-banking contracts (pay for the service to two banks in many cases) 2. transactions continue to grow fast

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Ketharaman Swaminathan

Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions

Open Letter To My ePayment Gateway Company

The proverbial ink has hardly dried on my blog post titled Mobile OTP: Cyanide Or Caffeine For Online Payments? than I saw the following 'kiss-of-death' screen on my laptop <Finextra readers to please scroll to the bottom of the page>: This happened on the very first occasion that I'd tried to pay my broadband bill online after the new secu...

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Snakes, tramps and ATMs

OK I have to admit I have something in common with Indiana Jones – I hate snakes. Sadly that’s where the similarity ends. My worst nightmare would be to have a snake come from the ATM rather than cash. I’ve seen that same YouTube video purporting to come from three different places at three different times – so maybe it’s another myth that was ne...

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Jane Adams

Jane Adams Marketing at Currently looking for a job

Let's call it PayOff

I’ve spent the last few days nose deep in the ‘Opening up UK Payments’ consultation document issued in March by HM Treasury. This paper outlines the government’s desire to impose utility style regulation on payments systems in the UK and is a follow up to the earlier consultation ‘Setting the Strategy’ about setting up a Payments Strategy Board to...

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