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Craig Ramsey

Craig Ramsey Head of Real-Time Payments at ACI Worldwide

Why travel to Sibos? Just look out of the window

The enormity of global trade is on display this year in Osaka, and it is more evident than ever that payments and trade finance are critical banking services supporting global economic growth. Each day participants navigate from hotels across the massive Kansai economic region of Osaka-Kyoto-Kobe-Nara to the INTEX conference center. On they way, we...

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Fareed Jawad

Fareed Jawad VP - Product Development at Spreedly Inc

IPGs and us - An Insider view on Internet Payments

This blog post is a kind of a walk down the memory lane for me starting from the early days of e-Commerce – think SET protocol to the evolutionary ratification of SSL to be used as the de-facto standard for checkout and payments on shopping websites – circa 1998 when I was at VeriFone (right when it was acquired by HP) to the convergence of the vi...

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Lessons from Japan

Things I have learned in the first two days here at Sibos in Osaka. I encountered my first musical heated toilet seat; I learned that the ATMs here dispense coins, and I discovered that everything is incredibly expensive - a fact neatly illustrated by a stunned Financial Times staffer who discovered his room service club sandwich had set him back ...

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Craig Ramsey

Craig Ramsey Head of Real-Time Payments at ACI Worldwide

The return of the payments hub

After years of a lack of clear agreement from the financial sector, the payments hub is finally getting some focus, as companies seek significant gains in financial efficiency. No longer referred to as simply advancements in technology, rather it’s now about actually providing a solution to a business problem. For banks, a single payments hub wou...

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So, James Bond has a new NFC smart phone!

For most of the paying public, going to see the latest James Bond movie ‘Skyfall’ is laden with expectation of action car chases, fights on the wings of aeroplanes - and of course gadgets! And, for me, it’s the gadgets that get me every time. But for this film I have a professional interest because James Bond will be using an NFC-enabled mobile in...

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Chris Principe

Chris Principe CEO at APB, Inc.

Trade and cash management connection a key corporate concern

Although advances have been made in global trade operational efficiencies, supply chain extensions across the world have led to increased financial impact for corporations, ultimately driving the banks to look to provide the benefits that merging cash and trade can provide. Within the bank, the trade person’s transaction base and documentary expe...

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Innovation must be built on solid ground

Innovating to address the ever evolving needs of the customer will always be a matter of importance to banks, as they strive to deliver new services both faster and competitively priced. However, delivering robust transaction banking capabilities is fundamentally key for financial institutions to maintain a stable and sustainable business on behal...

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Sibos in Osaka: the clans are gathering

The Sibos banners are out on the street in Osaka to warn the locals that thousands of bankers and vendors are about to descend on them for the week. The first ones have been here for a while – the ones who have to do the hard work of building the stands. The vendors who will be doing booth duty have already begun arriving too. Osaka isn’t serve...

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Chris Principe

Chris Principe CEO at APB, Inc.

Osaka an opportunity to discuss big data within global trade

Within trade finance, challenges exist for the big, experienced players as well as the newer entrants. Banks are eager to service and attract new customers with trade instruments, yet the service models and financing is complex and potentially risky. Big data a big topic across the financial industry, offers the potential to capitalize on the info...

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Jim Marous

Jim Marous Publisher at The Financial Brand

Monetizing Mobile Banking

As consumers are becoming more comfortable with mobile banking and mobile payments, financial institutions and technology providers are beginning to develop and deploy more innovative solutions with a focus on gaining market share, reducing costs and realizing new sources of revenue. It is clear that the question is no longer whether mobile bankin...

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