5172 Results from /payments
Colin Weir CEO at Moroku
What a fabulous week I have just had in Kenya. Home to many things, it is the current home of mobile money. Ask any Kenyan what mobile money is and how useful it is and you will get a very clear answer. If you asked the same question in the CBD of London or Sydney and you will struggle to get answers as accurate and consistent. There are plenty of...
01 December 2013 /payments
Retired Member
CMSpi is concerned that a decision on the introduction of polymer banknotes in the United Kingdom might be made without a suitable understanding of the costs and benefits of the change. We would like to see a framework which analyses and assesses these before deciding whether or not the fixed costs and operational challenges associated with polymer...
26 November 2013 /payments /regulation
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
Here at Finextra we are all about community and one of our favouite communities is Global Transaction Banking. So, as an end of year treat, we have gathered a group of industry thought leaders to gaze into their collective crystal ball, via a live interactive webcast, to look ahead to what is in store for GTB in 2014. Audience members will be abl...
26 November 2013 /payments Future Finance
From PayPal to Square, Braintree to Bitcoin, the payments business continues to flex and morph like the orange gloop in a lava lamp. Every week, I see at least two hot new technologies promising to radically transform the way we buy and sell. The success of every one of them depends on engagement from consumers, traders and, usually, the financial...
25 November 2013 /payments
Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group
This article was first published on gtnews. Corporate treasurers and their use of treasury management systems Corporate treasurers fully agree they can (and must) count more in their company. The financial crisis - now turned into economic crisis in many European countries - has elevated the corporate treasurer to the status of information steward ...
23 November 2013 /payments Treasury Management
Top five money management tips October 2, 2013 The Payments Council has today published a guide - as part of its Pay Your Way campaign - for people affected or concerned by the introduction of Universal Credit. The guide, which includes information about the changes to the benefits system also clearly detai...
23 November 2013 /payments Private Equity Investing in Financial Technology
Andre Malinowski Head of International Business at Computop GmbH
The multi-channel world has seen tremendous development in the past decades. During the last 20 years, the e-commerce market has expanded and is still growing. New global acquirers and innovative localized payment schemes are continually emerging. While developed markets continue to command a significant share of global online retail sales, they s...
22 November 2013 /payments
Hardly a day goes by without someone getting excited about Google's Host Card Emulation (HCE). Media is selling it as the "Open Sesame" for mobile payments. Is that true? Executive summary: IMHO, b***cks! HCE is a good tool for specific use cases, but it's not - by far - the Holy Grail. Here's why. To understand what HCE is all about, let...
22 November 2013 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
… doesn’t it? By embracing new technologies, access to services via the Cloud offers corporate treasurers of every size of organisation the opportunity to improve efficiencies and further drive down operational costs. At SWIFT we are very well aware that any change to the way we do business brings with it a dose of healthy scepticism. New services...
21 November 2013 /payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
It seems that there are over 100 million ‘selfies’ (people posting pictures of themselves) on instagram – a trend that is continuing to rise. The prepaid card is also growing with its own version of the selfie, with a half the US adult population having bought a prepaid card and an increasing number for their own use, showing the market has create...
20 November 2013 /payments
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