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Steve Ellis

Steve Ellis Founder at Finextra Research

The social angle on Money2020

Social is a big part of Money2020 (in both senses). In a moment of mid-conference early morning jetlag I thought I'd run some numbers to see how much noise is being generated, by whom and to what impact. Looking at data from August 4th to November 3rd, we found and analysed 27,000 relevant mentions - 92% of which were in microblogs (Twitter). Needl...

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Bo Harald

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

It's our money..

An estimated EUR 177 billion in VAT revenues was lost due to non-compliance or non-collection in 2012, a recent report reveals. E-invoicing to help reduce EU VAT Gap losses - report thepaypers.com According to a recent VAT Gap study by the European Commission, the lost revenue equals to 16% of total expected VAT revenue by the 26 EU Member States....

/payments Electronic invoicing

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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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