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Retired Member
Visa and the Government of Rwanda (GOR) recently announced an initiative to electrify the country’s payments system which, if successful, could potentially be a template for financial sector development involving private sector partnerships across the wider region. The aim is straightforward – to provide a payments infrastructure in Rwanda that i...
18 January 2012 /payments /retail
Stephen Wilson Managing Director at Lockstep Consulting
It's terrific that merchants are increasingly pushing back on PCI-DSS. It really is high time we shifted the emphasis from ad hoc stop gap compromise measures, onto tackling the real problem: the replayability of account data. Credit card numbers are a bit like nitroglycerine: handle them with great care or they'll blow up! The slightest slip-up,...
13 January 2012 /security /payments
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
Questions European Tax Payers should ask: https://www.finextra.com/community/members/PreviewBlog.aspx?b_id=2815 This is a post from 2009. Even if the finance crisis has since hijacked almost all attention it is more than obvious that we need to push forward with this - not only to improve productivity in all enterprises and the public sector - but ...
13 January 2012 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Keith Appleyard IT Consultant at available for hire
Despite all the bleating about PCI over the years, I found it to be too weak. With all the focus on Cardholder Data - as being that on the Mag Stripe - namely Cardnumber, Cardholder Name, Expiry Date and Security Code - I found many Merchants & Service Providers treated it as a 'max' rather than 'min' level of security. I performed due diligenc...
13 January 2012 /payments Whatever...
Still relevant interview - http://eeiplatform.com/3551/interview-with-the-chair-of-the-former-ec-expert-group-on-e-invoicing/ UNCEFACT>ISO 20022 was not ready then - but now it is! See other blogposts here. And then a collection of e-invoicing information sources by EEIplatform: http://eeiplatform.com/6886/7-websites-e-invoicing-ap-automation-c...
10 January 2012 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
When more countries enter the race to the future of business transaction automation our experience that it takes time may be useful - blog from late 2010: "Nobody promised you a rose garden I went to a book publishing party yesterday. Wonderful book about interior design and life by extraordinary personality. Lots of cultural types around and ...
08 January 2012 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Here’s a confession. By education, I’m a technologist, not a banker or economist. Let alone a visionary. So, when confronted with the all too common conundrum of how to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) of payment systems, I need to first take a step back and analyze where the largest costs are generated. In my first blog on payment data c...
06 January 2012 /payments
The second most viewed post last year states that e-banking is not ready: https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=5353 The points raised can be crystallized as follows: 1. New generations of smartphones and tablets mean that also bank customers start to expect proactive intelligence and context based messages. In stead of only logging ...
05 January 2012 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Walk by the enormous gift card displays at big box retailers like Walmart, Target, and Best Buy, and you will see gift cards for Facebook Credits in $10, $25, and $50 denominations (Credits are currently worth $.10). Other than purchasing Credits directly through Facebook, this is currently the only mainstream way to acquire Credits. Yes, you ca...
04 January 2012 /payments Finance 2.0
It is the New Year and we have decided to share with you our predictions for the payments industry for the next 12 months. This is always a tricky task, especially as the last couple of years have brought in many changes and new developments, especially around new payment channels. We have therefore realised that it is probably almost impossible fo...
04 January 2012 /payments /retail
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