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Martin Ruda

Martin Ruda Managing Director at Tall Group

The Payments Challenges in Emerging Markets...

Payments Challenges in Emerging Markets supporting high growth economies As the world changes its perception of emerging markets beyond the now well-documented BRICS success stories, Africa and in particular sub-Saharan Africa, comes into focus. So what challenges does the payments community face in supporting multi-national corporates in-country ...

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Payexpo Round-up

By John Doyle • June 25th 2013 The Payexpo conference and exhibition held last week at the Excel in London was a busy affair. Three main streams a non-stop exhibition and several side events meant that you had to study the agenda carefully in order to see what you wanted to see; little opportunity to attend less ‘on focus’ presentations to glean...

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Tushar Chitra

Tushar Chitra Vice President, Product Strategy and Management at Oracle Financial Services

Bank Payment Obligation: New International Trade Standard

On April 17th, the ICC Banking Commission approved the URBPO contractual rules, which will be brought into effect from July 1st 2013.This recent announcement is likely to create ripples in the financial services industry. In this blog I will review what BPO means, what are the uniform rules (the UR in URBPO) mandated by ICC, and what would be the ...

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Possible potholes in the road to mobile payments?

Those of us in the payments industry talk regularly about the potential of mobile payments and the benefits they could bring. Laying aside for the moment the fact that I feel, at times, as if we all get so excited about mobile we’ve stopped looking for what comes next, I do think it is worth taking a step back and looking at some of the challenges ...

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Innovation Necessity and a Tale of Two Industries

Abstract This blog entry compares the need for technological transformation in two segments of the financial industry, both exhibiting similar phases of development but at different points in time. It presents the experiences from the rapid transformation of the electronic trading industry and relating these to the current challenges and pressures...

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Financial inNOvation

Following a visit to PayExpo at Excel (nothing to write home about, as far as most of the exhibitors are concerned), I attended the FinTech Road Show today which was supposed to showcase some of the most disruptive financial technologies in the UK startup world. [Yawn] I don't want to sound like a broken record, but 99% of companies in the payment...

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Payment Factories and Global Cash Visibility-Part One

I have discussed how Payment Factories can help improve efficiency by centralising payments. I’d like to examine in more detail how a Payment Factory can improve cash visibility across an organisation. When people hear the term “Payment Factory,” their immediate assumption is that this surely must be just about payments. And they’re mostly right, a...

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Banking - Mission: Impossible in disguise?

Bankers have a reputation of being very conservative and well, frankly, boring. As an ex-banker I’d like to defend this and say that rather than the image of grey suited accountants, they should be seen as heroes like Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible. After all – bankers are in the risk business – and are taking risks every day. Here in Malaysia,...

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Bo Harald

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

Demise of cash in Finland

Steady progress

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Bo Harald

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

e-id and e-commerce payment volumes growing in Finland

Observations: 1. the public sector is the main user of banks e-id services and the growth continues as bank e-id also can be used for electronic signatures 2. e-commerce transactions are real time payments and showed very good growth in 2012

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