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Craig Ramsey

Craig Ramsey Head of Real-Time Payments at ACI Worldwide

EBAday blog pt. 1: wholesale payments innovation

With EBAday starting tomorrow in Madrid, I can't help thinking that one of the main topics of discuss will be around innovation. Whether it is bringing new products to market or offering existing services at a lower cost, innovation in wholesale banking payments is now an important aspiration. Innovation is often seen as the means by which banks m...

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The Bright Side of the Cloud For The Regulators

Regulators globally have expressed mixed feeling on banks and financial institutions (FIs) moving into cloud computing. The top of the list concerns are security and data privacy. There are a lot more though. The recent data breaches and data theft will in no way improve on this thinking. While it is quite understandable, it is not a good trend. T...

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The road ahead

Financial institutions, banks and credit cards companies, have invested billions of euros over the last 30 years on payments systems. However over time the complexity of the overall system architectures in place is proving hard to leverage to meet today's demands. But doing away with the old and start from scratch with the new will prove more diff...

/payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

Brett King

Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven

Visa gets its wallet sorted, or does it?

The announcement today of Visa’s acquisition of Fundamo signals the drawing of the battle lines in the face off between Mastercard and Visa in the mobile payments stakes. While I understand that a wallet is much more than just an NFC enabler, the announcement of Google’s NFC trial around their ‘wallet’ last month put some pressure on Visa to make...

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Do you need to review your payment system?

I have talked a lot recently about legacy payment systems, the problems they can cause within financial institutions and how to approach change, but I often get asked how companies can ascertain if they would benefit from evolving their payment systems. I think there are ten questions they should ask themselves: How do you compare with your compe...

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Bo Harald

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

Banks taking responsibility - good show EBA!

“For several years, the Euro Banking Association (EBA) has been conducting an e-invoicing working group (EIWG), with the objective of contributing to the mass adoption of e-invoicing in Europe and of exploring the potential roles and opportunities for the banking industry.” Service Description & Rulebook’ document. “This document provides an ...

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SEPA end dates: what's the opportunity?

The EU Commission’s proposals on end dates for SEPA Credit Transfer (SCT) and SEPA Direct Debit (SDD) have been widely publicised. These could be as early as 2012 and 2013 – although I would question whether it’s more likely to end up as 2013 and 2014. Either way, as soon as the legislation is passed, we will finally have some realistic SEPA end d...

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How many PIN codes you can remember?

Every time I get new service or new card, I get new user name and new PIN code. As it is written in many data security manuals, never store your codes next to computer, mobile device or similar places, where it can be found. it is also written that newer use same user names or passwords to different places. Problem is that I will forget passwords ...

/payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

Brett King

Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven

Google Wallet is not about Payments

Last week Google announced their long awaited NFC-trial for mobile payments. On the face of it, many perceive that Google’s play is an attempt to cannibalize the lucrative payments market, but if that was the case, why has Google not taken a share of interchange fees from Citi and Mastercard? In addition, Google is supplying contactless point-of-...

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George Ravich

George Ravich President at Ravco Marketing, LLC

The way to corporate banking customers' hearts? Go mobile!

By offering mobile banking services, banks can encourage their small business customers to upgrade from low-margin retail banking platforms to a higher-margin, higher-value cash management platform. For years, banks have been seeking the answer to the pressing question: how can they convert their small business customers from low-margin retail bank...

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