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Card Acceptance Matters - Part 2

In part I of my “Card Acceptance Matters” blog article, I discussed the high-level results of research conducted by MasterCard and Kaiser Associates, and the finding that card acceptance can lead to increased purchasing volumes per customer. In this article, we’ll take a look at how card acceptance can lead to greater revenue consistency. Paying ...

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The future desirability of a Cashless Society

There is no stopping the evolution to a cashless society. It will be a convergence of the internet, credit and debit cards that have Visa PayWave & MasterCard PayPass, American Express cards that have ExpressPay, and a smart phone that can be used in much the same way as a physical wallet is used, only with virtual examples of credit or debit ...

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Mobile payments: and the winner is...

Hailo. Whilst hundreds of companies in the payments space are racing to solve the nonexistent problems (or, at the very least, problems which neither the consumer nor the merchant care much about), Hailo offered a great solution without even inventing anything. In fact, payment was a pleasant side-effect of their core product. Hail a cab using Hai...

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Is PCI a white elephant?.. Or is Dave Birch wrong?..

The most frequently cited and referenced part of PCI DSS relates to protection of cardholder data, mainly card number (PAN), cardholder's name and card expiration date. Now, Dave Birch of Consult Hyperion (one of the leading consultancies in the payments industry) as well as Mark Austin, head of contactless at Visa Europe, are saying that the info...

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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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