5054 Results from /payments
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The Vice-President of the European Commission and EU Justice Commissioner, Vivien Reding, has this week outlined updates to EU legislation for the protection of personal data, following a public consultation throughout 2010. As of autumn this year all sectors across the EU will be subject to a ‘mandatory requirement to notify data security breache...
22 June 2011 /security /payments
Andre Malinowski Head of International Business at Computop GmbH
We serve all, always and everywhere…now, do you? Looking at the online payment processing propositions of PSP's, one could get the impression that every PSP can serve all, always and everywhere, regardless of the merchants industry, currency, merchant locale or payment method needed. This fabulous development is something we Germans call ‘die eier...
22 June 2011 /payments
John Clarke Head of Product Innovation at WorldNet TPS
2010 - Year of the Mobile (finally!) Since at least 1999, each year has produced confident predictions that next year would be the "Year of the Mobile". So it's a relief to finally be able to talk about the Year of the Mobile in the past tense. The general consensus, from Google on down, is that 2010 gets the award as year of the mobile...
20 June 2011 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Craig Ramsey Head of Real-Time Payments at ACI Worldwide
All banks benefit from improvements to the payment market’s efficiency. This is where experienced software professionals can help the payments community achieve more in less time, particularly in complex global markets. Software partners are in a position to help deliver innovative services with their available proven solutions and tools. When a b...
20 June 2011 /payments /wholesale EBAday
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
We have recently experienced a surge in interest for global e-invoicing from multinational enterprises. This is not surprising - cost savings are so large - and the usual ice-hockey stick effect typical. And we should be very pleased that the ISO20022 e-invoicing message standard (built on UNCEFACT CII V2 content standard) is ready for global adop...
18 June 2011 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
In today´s global market place it is more than evident that most European countries need to take a really hard look at the competitiveness of their enterprises. This is naturally a multidimensional issue - education, innovation climate, workforce mobility, risk capital, bank lending, lower tax on work etc. One of the most critical issues is the hig...
Having just returned from EBA Day in Madrid, I think that the 600+ delegates, exhibitors and organisers, would agree it was a roaring success, with only one slight cloud on the horizon - WiFi. Why is it in this day and age that the likes of Starbucks, Costa and numerous hotels and other places can provide free WiFi but that conference venues ch...
17 June 2011 /payments EBAday
Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions
No, not because it's innovative - it isn't. I can think of at least one provider of this type of alternative payment each in the USA, UK, Netherlands and India that has been around for several years. Called 'Secure Vault Payment' or 'SVP' in the USA, these payment methods connect online shoppers with Internet Banking portals of domestic banks se
17 June 2011 /payments
The need to develop new customer propositions has become more important recently because of the new market entrants that many claim are eroding the traditional bank’s business in the payments space. It is a common topic of conversation at industry conferences, but in reality these new entrants invariably work with banks to deliver final settlement...
Ward Hagenaar Head of Consulting - Co-Founder at PaymentGenes
We have been speculating a lot on the role that social media giants like Google, Facebook and technology companies like Apple or Square could play in the financial services arena. They have been positioned as a threat to the banking position with regards to payments and potentially other P2P products like lending. In fact they are a threat and an ...
17 June 2011 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
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