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How can I deploy my Android Wallet? tip: It’s already there!

Apple Pay is here and banks can finally enable NFC mobile payments for their iPhone carrying customers. However, the Apple smart phone user base, while considerable, is only part of the entire customer base of banks and merchants. How can banks serve their entire customer base, especially their Android-based customers? And this is not a small prob...

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Pat Carroll

Pat Carroll Founder/Executive Chairman at ValidSoft

Chip and Signature, a Paradise Lost

By now, most participants in the US payments industry are finally about to realize that the day of the mag stripe is doomed and that EMV, the secure payment card technology rolled out in Europe nearly a decade ago, is finally about to make its debut in the US. Incredulous as it may seem, the financial integrity of the payment card industry continu...

/payments Disruption in Retail Banking

Steve Ellis

Steve Ellis Founder at Finextra Research

Fintech marketers most fear the enemy within?

Earlier this year we sponsored a piece of research by Finextra into the challenges and issues facing fintech marketers. One of my favourite insights is that fintech marketers fear their dependency upon their colleagues, even more than the campaigns of their competitors. We asked fintech marketers the question: what are the biggest barriers to ach...

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Can Real Time Payments impact GDP?

As the global news feeds announce whacky, new, mobile-inspired payment concepts faster than the regulators can dream up new regulations for the banking market, it is fantastic to see the news this week from the The Clearing House in the US. At last we have real signs that the US Payment Authorities are serious about updating their legacy payment i...

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Elizabeth Lumley

Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted

Revenue and Billing Management Sibos Roundtable

On the heels of the recent Revenue and Billing Management Report, Finextra and Oracle held a breakfast roundtable with senior bankers at this year’s Sibos to discuss the real world experiences when dealing with the complex and changing world of revenue and billing management. In addition to representatives from Oracle, the roundtable was attended ...

/payments /regulation Future Finance

Arnab Sengupta

Arnab Sengupta Chief Executive Officer at ESG Tech Hub

Will Apple Pay threaten PayPal's Business?

Introduction: Apple has recently launched its iPhone 6 with Apple Pay with much enthusiasm and fan fare. Almost every media house on the planet has covered the launch extensively and some of the top industry analysts have hailed the launch as equivalent to the Ford Model-T revolution in Payments. The merchants are largely positive about embracing ...

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Apple Pay and the new POSsibilities for Merchants

Over recent years, agile new players have entered the in-store payments space, bringing new innovations that offer merchants more competitive, advanced solutions. For example, terminal providers are rolling out new checkout solutions that leave traditional hardware (and software) options in their slipstream. Payment service providers are delivering...

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Payments: Securing future innovation

The only things that are certain in life are death and taxes, or so Benjamin Franklin’s infamous quote goes. In today's financial services market we can safely add another certainty - change. It seems to be an almost daily occurrence at the moment, whether its changes to rates, products, regulation, people, lenders, processes, policies or consumer...

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Brett King

Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven

Why Ebola might kill cash

The Fear Factor on Ebola is over the top right now. We are spending countless hours in the media analyzing footage of health workers, figuring out how a nurse in Texas contracted the disease despite strict quarantine procedures, and debating over whether to travel on aircraft. In all of this though, the transmission methods of Ebola have been well...

/payments Innovation in Financial Services

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SE vs. HCE: What is more secure for NFC mobile payments?

With the introduction earlier this year of Host Card Emulation (HCE) and last month’s reveal of the iPhone 6, Near Field Communication (NFC) technology is making a strong move to fulfill its promise to be the dominant “physical world” payments technology. The reinvigoration of interest in NFC is raising the stakes for enabling technologies that mak...

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