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Ketharaman Swaminathan

Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions

The Death Of Cash Is At Least 190 Years Away

According to a Barron's article titled The End of Cash?, the use of cash as a percentage of retail spending in the USA declined from 36% in 2002 to 29% in 2012. Extrapolating these figures - by using the same negative CAGR that works out to around 19.5% per decade - we should see the end of cash usage by 2202, that is, 190 years from now. An Excel...

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Bo Harald

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

Anti-interoperability

We keep hearing from enraged enterprises that some e-invoicing service providers still continue with their old 3-corner strategy > signing up big invoice reveivers and trying to force suppliers to sign up with this particular service provider. Especially angry comments come from those who already have a functioning relationship for their large v...

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Bo Harald

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

Give citizens a choice - and this is what they choose

Strong e-id is often needed when logging in also to non-banking services. Reusing bank e-id also there - especially in the public sector - is something of the most sensemaking aspects of also otherwise much needed public-private co-operation. 2011 was a great year for bank e-id (TUPAS) - the alternative (a state issued smartcard) is not used at al...

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Understanding Health Care EFT Standards: Part III

Which Message Format to Use for Health Care EFT?… In Part I of my Understanding Healthcare EFT standards blog, I identified several major obstacles for health care providers to adopt EFT (electronic funds transfer) and ERA (electronic remittance advice). In Part II, I explored the differences between in-band versus out-of-band remittance delivery...

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Fresh thoughts for 2013

First things first. Big THANK YOU to all of you who follow or occasionally read my blog here - you are the main reason my analysis of Google Wallet ended up becoming Finextra's most popular blog post in 2012. I'll do my best to offer more thought-provoking views in 2013. My first blog post this year was inspired by my trip to Singapore for the New ...

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Bo Harald

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

My name is Guy. Same Guy. Reissued

My name is Guy. Mr Same Guy. I show up in as a so called private customer off hours, then during working hours as a corporate customer, as a citizen in public sector services and often also as a member of associations, clubs etc. My point is that there are no corporate customers, no private customers, no citizens etc - only human customers or users...

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Fraud: You're only as good as your last prevention.

The industry analogy is that fraud is like a balloon, you squeeze the fraudsters in one area and they pop out somewhere else. Sometimes it’s predictable like when chip & PIN was introduced, already high CNP fraud rose still further and x-border fraud levels rose (though not as sharply and as quickly as had been forecast) Often, however, th...

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Visa Hungary - Are they are losing their appetite?

If the recent article published on the Pymnts web site is accepted then it seems that Visa may be considering an exit strategy from Hungary in the face of substantial, and continuing, market share loss to MasterCard. According to the article, and cross referenced pieces, Visa’s problems stem from a commitment made to the EC to reduce (debit card)...

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The effect of Mega Processors on card scheme fees?

It is becoming increasingly obvious to me that the Global and Regional card payment processing organisations have their sights set, if not on world or territorial domination, certainly on ever increasing size and scale. Where organic growth fails to deliver to aspirations, smaller operations are routinely acquired. Assuming this trend continues...

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You want to think Outside the Box. Then get Outside the Box!

Have you noticed it? I’ve been into countless financial service organisations and a recurring theme I’ve observed in practically all of them is that where staff come together (canteen, seminar, Christmas parties, etc.) and even generally around the office there is a tendency for the upper levels of management to congregate into their respective...

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