5255 Results from /payments
David Varney Director at Q-ATM, Burnt Oak Partnership, Varney Ltd
Now the New Year is well and truly in full swing and personal performance plans for 2013 are on file, it’s interesting to compare the process many of us followed for ourselves, with the one followed for our outsourcing contracts. Do you pay the same level of attention to goal setting, coaching and driving performance in the contract between you a...
25 February 2013 /payments
Eric Smith Senior Pre-Sales Consultant at Dynamic Partners
Did you see the news item about the fossil discovery that they say is the “missing link” and “ancestor of all mammals”? A small shrew-like creature that became the whales, penguins, kangaroos and humans we know today. Miraculous! Isn’t Mother Nature wonderful in how it can adapt? Yet this evolution took place over thousands, even millions of years...
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
A lot of time and effort has been spent on automating manufacturing and logistics in large companies. Less has been spent on their administrative processes. Automation of SME administration and government reporting still appears as virgin territory. More https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=7407 As the SME sector stand for some 65% ...
23 February 2013 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Is SME-sector competitiveness important? If governments consider SME-sector competitiveness important (65% of corporate turnover and all growth in employment come from them) they should do something about red tape and automation of administrative processes. The key to the latter is fast migration to structured e-invoicing - paving the way to autom...
22 February 2013 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
With the latest instalment of James Bond; “Skyfall” out on DVD and Blu-Ray this week, I started thinking about how the world of payments is like the world of James Bond. Bond has to sort the good guys from the bad ones. In payments we must identify what new technologies and payment methods will become mainstream trends and which are simply a “flash...
19 February 2013 /payments
Retired Member
"EMV in the US" still seems to be a debate point. However, the potential far-reaching problem with EMV ("chip" cards) is deeper than its US roadmap. Big Fish, no chips Few people noticed that Barclays quietly dispensed with the use of "chip" for mobile banking: instead of a PINsentry dongle that worked in conjunction...
18 February 2013 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
As I am now checking out from full time employment I take this opportunity to sum up what we (not I..) at Nordea, Tieto, the EC Expert Group on e-Invoicing, the Real Time Economy program, the Mobey Forum etc achieved in the some 40 years of bringing more technology into banking and beyond in the new connecting-customers dimension. The world is by ...
US commentator Brett King is right in his claim that ‘the underbanked don’t need banks anymore’ (FinExtra blog, Dec’12) but, frankly speaking, his is only half the story. King offers an overview of some alternative financial services that provide the utility of banking. First he cites low-value convenience purchase accounts from retailers like Sta...
14 February 2013 /payments
According to the latest Bank of England statistical release, the amount of notes and coin in circulation is growing at about 4% a year. This has been pretty much the average growth rate over the past few years, although there was a large spike in late 2009 to over 8%. At around that time, Andrew Bailey, who was then the Bank of England Chief Cash...
12 February 2013 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
With the release last year of the iPhone5, Apple decided to pass on NFC, at least for now. Instead, they included Passbook, an app to store electronic coupons, vouchers, and boarding passes, which, using barcodes or QR codes, provide services from the likes of Starbucks, United Airlines, Ticketmaster, or Target. So why did Apple decide to not go f...
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