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Retired Member
This blog was created while Mark was working at The Logic Group. As more brands adopt contactless technology, how many consumers and staff at the check-out really understand its benefits and how to use it? Recently Neira Jones, Head of the Payment Security Team at Barclaycard, reported in an interview with Grocery Trader that there are now around ...
13 October 2010 /payments /retail
We’ve been gearing up for Sibos for a couple of months now and in all our discussions with London-based international bankers, the show’s themes of the three Rs: Regulation, Rebuilding Trust and Recovery, seem to be ringing true. However, it’s also clear that regulatory compliance will be taking the lions’ share of companies’ resources and atte...
11 October 2010 /payments /sibos Finextra@Sibos
Miloslav Hoschek Freelancer at e-Silk Road, NGO
Let's define at first the abstract new terminology related to our theme. We will suppose that the deflation spiral has limited constraints and frames. We will explain here how the deflation spiral transform to a deflation helix under the influence of a negative discount rate. cont. copyright Miloslav HOSCHEK PhD independent consultant mhoschek/ad...
09 October 2010 /payments /regulation Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Nick Ogden Chairman at Ogden Research
There’s been a lot of talk recently about the idea of ‘cashless society’ and numerous journalists seem to be jumping on the bandwagon in a bid to write a colourful story. This usually involves testing out the concept by living without cash for a week or so, throwing in a few humorous anecdotes along the way – no money for the tooth fairy, no money...
07 October 2010 /security /payments
In my last blog I looked at different revolutions that have impacted the manufacturing industry in the past, and what the payments industry can learn from them, specifically the use of interchangeable parts and mass production. In this piece I want to look at two more manufacturing trends, starting with Just-In-Time (JIT) manufacturing. The basic...
06 October 2010 /payments
Today we have seen the release of the PCI DSS take on PCI DSS Applicability in an EMV Environment: A Guidance Document. Today, we see my take on it … This document makes sense, provided one believes all of the nonsense upon which it is founded. If the foundations are weak the structure will tumble - stand back! This document refers throughout to
05 October 2010 /payments
Uri Rivner CEO and Co-Founder at Refine Intelligence
The bloodhounds are continuing to register notable victories over online crime rings. This time there were a massive series of arrests done in US, UK and other countries in relation to fraudsters spreading or cashing out on a major Zeus Trojan operation, which has been pestering US businesses for the past 18 months. In a clever multi-national inve...
04 October 2010 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
If Visa’s Payment Security Forum held in Cairo this week is anything to go by, Data Field Encryption projects certainly seem to be on the agenda for banks in the Middle East, Africa, and Eastern Europe. More than 95% of those responding to a quick poll at the conference said they were either considering, evaluating, or were actively engaged in Da...
30 September 2010 /security /payments Information Security
Throughout its life, the manufacturing industry has gone through many changes that have each revolutionized the way products are made. Consider the principle of using uniform and interchangeable parts, rather than every element being unique. By being able to easily replace and reuse parts, manufacturers could make their processes more efficient, w...
30 September 2010 /payments
Alexander Mifsud Co-Founder and CEO at Weavr.io
The recent Finextra webcast on retail banking innovation caused some a debate from various industry experts. The general consensus seemed to be that banks are severely constrained in terms of how much information they can share about innovation: The mania to protect intellectual property and reputation means that innovation teams are constrained f...
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