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I am not impressed by iZettle. Please hear me out. The concept of contact based card reader devices is nothing new. We see it all day. It so ubiquitous, that we don’t notice it at all; Let alone recognize it as an innovation. The accompanying video reveals all. Device 1: mobile phone, device 2: card reader and 3: the credit card itself. This is no...
19 August 2011 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
“If you line up the 30 billion checks issued by the top check writing countries in the world each year, you’d have a paper trail all the way to the moon and back.” The video, Global Mobile Finance contains statements such as these that truly make us wonder when we are going to finally leave the check behind. In the B2B world, the drivers for mo...
18 August 2011 /payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
The news from Visa yesterday moving forward with EMV in the US should not be that surprising - it was inevitable that the move had to happen and it needed a major industry leader to stand up and take a stance - but, still, it is certainly very significant. This isn't just a technology change - this is much bigger movement towards advanced payment ...
10 August 2011 /payments
Regular readers of this blog will know that I have been writing about eating the US EMV elephant for some time. Yesterday’s announcement from Visa may just be the big push the US market needs for it to finally migrate to EMV. Visa’s roadmap includes ‘carrot and stick’ elements in its drive to accelerate EMV adoption in the US. Merchants will soon h...
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
Latest on the country front – aiming at > 1. saving tax payer’s money, 2. collecting VAT due – efficiently, 3.pushing the SME-sector into better productivity, 4. increasing work force upward mobility and 5. contributing to CO2 targets. Deadlines issued: Denmark, Singapore, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Finland, Brazil, Greece, Mexico, Norway Latest: Gr...
08 August 2011 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Over the last few years that I have worked in Sales and I introduce my company and ask a simple CRM adoption question of the sales team and their chosen CRM system. These are some of the more interesting comments that I have had filtered back to me! I hope you enjoy them and if you have any of your own from the Fintech world then I would be please...
05 August 2011 /payments
Andre Malinowski Head of International Business at Computop GmbH
Improvement should part of regular maintenance A couple of weeks ago it was time for the bi-annual checkup of my car again. Not that anything was wrong with it, but it is part of the service agreement I have. As usual, I went to my car dealers garage and being there I took the chance to ask them to replace my stereo with a multi-media system as my...
04 August 2011 /payments /retail
Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven
The US is enamored with outdated and costly modality that is costing Billions in lost revenue and fraud. While many argue the business case for moving to technology like EMV or NFC is hard to justify, the reality is it is incredibly simple to justify based simply on mathematics around today’s massive cost of fraud. The same goes for those that say...
03 August 2011 /payments /regulation Innovation in Financial Services
The term “in-house bank” carries a variety of meanings. On one end of the spectrum, it simply refers to the ability of an organization to provide basic internal funding to its subsidiaries; on the other end, it represents a complete banking and financing arm of an organization that performs much like a third party banking institution, including...
03 August 2011 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Sibos once again fast approaches, the programme is largely set and delegates can begin to plan their week in Toronto in some detail. As the recent financial crisis is no longer centre stage, the overall themes for Sibos recognise that the focus is shifting to the future and that the industry is grappling with new questions, especially around the i...
03 August 2011 /payments /sibos Finextra@Sibos
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