4855 Results from /payments
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SunGard recently conducted a study to better understand how corporations were addressing the various challenges around ePayment adoption and the migration to ACH and virtual cards. The study included 171 participants spanning a broad range of industry and revenue classifications, with 48% of the respondents from companies with more than $1 billion...
07 August 2012 /payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Andy Hunter CEO at Perficiam Ltd
Government's decision to wind up the Payments Council and vest control in some form of statutory body raises serious issues of governance and commerciality. The underlying assumption that civil servants are better able to determine market preference than bank executives seems an unlikely scenario. State managed Skoda was a constant butt of humour ...
06 August 2012 /payments /retail Transaction Banking
Is the recent RBS system failure a one-off, or does it highlight a bigger and broader problem? Robert Peston, the BBC’s Business editor, says ‘….RBS does not believe that the issue raised by many - that all the banks have creaking ancient and complex computer systems, on to which they are constantly grafting updates - is the core weakness. That ...
06 August 2012 /payments
Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions
Over five years ago, I'd written a post titled Cheque Deposit Systems — Are They Really Worth It? During the next couple of years, I'd found this equipment to be down every other time that I'd visited the bank's branch to pay my credit card bill. My overall poor experience with this technology led me to conclude, in a follow up post titled Technol...
04 August 2012 /payments /retail
Stephen Wilson Managing Director at Lockstep Consulting
Online computing represents probably the first new platform in thirty years. Not since the PC have we seen a whole new hardware-software-solution-product environment emerge. It's understandable that there's a mad land grab for app-driven market share. But you'd think that the rush to market would be moderated by a realisation that we ought to b...
03 August 2012 /security /payments
Nick Ogden Chairman at Ogden Research
For months now we have been fortunate enough in the UK to sit back and watch as Moody's, the bank rating agency, set about a mission of degrading poorly performing banks. But all this changed last month, as a further barrage of bank downgrades saw Moody's downgrade 15 global banks and security firms - including some banks we are all particularly f...
31 July 2012 /payments /retail
Matthew Talbot SVP at Sybase
In the last several weeks, two leading mobile operating system (OS) vendors moved into the mobile payments space. Apple announced its new mobile wallet Passbook that will debut with iOS 6 this fall. Microsoft quickly followed with its announcement of the new Microsoft Wallet mobile payment app, also due out this fall as a part of Windows 8…and Goo...
30 July 2012 /payments
Asda is the latest supermarket to follow the trend and raise its profile in the personal finance sector. The UK supermarket giant recently announced its new brand, Asda Money, which offers its millions of customers an unlimited cashback credit card. This move follows a spate of supermarket and financial service provider collaborations, such as Mar...
27 July 2012 /payments /retail
Miloslav Hoschek Freelancer at e-Silk Road, NGO
Telcos theme in 2020 is a recent study.... copyright Miloslav HOSCHEK PhD independent consultant mhoschek/ad/gmail.com
25 July 2012 /payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Traditional telcos and their modern rivals each have a total market capitalization of round about EUR 800 billion..... copyright Miloslav HOSCHEK PhD independent consultant mhoschek/ad/gmail.com
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