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Elizabeth Lumley

Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted

Where can you find a hell of a lot of FinTech engineers?

The Finextra Twitterview - Atlanta FinTech Universe When: Augist 18th, 2010, 10:00 EDT (15:00 BST) Where: Follow @Finextra and @kpetralia, @simEngine, @johnbhayes, @SBatTTV, @atlantapayments, @steve_atl, @MelanieBrandt, @DCoxATL and @tjsweeney. Hashtag: #finxlive As some of you know, I'm on Twitter (@LizLum). One day, @tjsweeney (Tim Sweeney, ...

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Bo Harald

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

Addictive e-experience

I should have known - it is not possible to realize how good something can be before you get to use it. It is not quite possible either to see the next steps before you take the previous. Even if a good part of my daily work has been and continues to be innovations in these fields. Now I am amazed at how easy and addicting it is to pay the bills. Y...

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SEPA: The Future is Integration Management

It’s not quite so fashionable to talk about SEPA these days. After all – aren’t we all wishing the rules and solutions were are all defined and implemented? But there’s still a fundamental challenge that banks (and corporate treasuries) face: integration among both legacy formats and legacy systems. Payments hubs are still often discussed as a sol...

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How Many POS Security Documents Does One Need?

As the old joke goes, “the great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.” This certainly seems to be the case with point-of-sale (POS) devices, where there are now a number of overlapping initiatives aimed at improving payment card security. While this may seem to be unnecessarily redundant, it is important that POS vendors...

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Financial transactions tax sparks debate

As we have seen in the media this week, EU proposals for a tax on financial transactions have created a storm of debate in the last 24 hours – mainly focusing on political issues. While the full details of the proposed tax are still unclear, it is obvious that a tax on financial transactions – or payments between banks – would be detrimental for ...

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Stanley Epstein

Stanley Epstein Associate at Citadel Advantage Group

Is Mobile Banking a disaster waiting to happen?

The news this past week has been all about a Citibank mobile banking glitch. Apparently a flaw in a version of its iPhone m-banking application resulted in it improperly storing customer account information. Now this is something that could happen to anyone, you will say. But should it? The past year has seen an explosion of new banking services an...

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Echo chambers and primary research: what's the balance?

Finextra today announces Citi's consolidation of innovation centers, with the bank's executive citing the need to be closer to the "echo chamber" that exists here in the Bay Area. Count me in as at once skeptical and supportive of Citi's approach. As the founder a global research company based in the Bay Area I pose a question: are surp

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Nick Ogden

Nick Ogden Chairman at Ogden Research

It works over there so why not over here?

The EU’s 2009 e-money Directive aimed to enable the design of new, innovative and secure electronic money services. In some ways Europe has come a long way in this area: use of credit and debit cards, Electronic Funds Transfer, Electronic Banking and Chip and PIN authentication have all increased dramatically, a date has been set for the demise o...

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APAC remittances: Are banks missing the opportunity?

The Southeast Asia and Pacific region has one of the most mobile workforces in the world. The Philippines and Indonesia in particular are major sources of these workers, with many migrating to the Middle East and East Asia regions for work. With so many of these workers sending earnings back to their families in their native countries, there is tr...

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Visa Inc.. becomes a Payment Institution !

On July 21 Visa Inc.. announced the completion of its acquisition of CyberSource Corporation (for a total of $ 2 Billion). This acquisition allows Visa to reinforce his mastery over the management of security, fraud and online payment. The acquisition of CyberSource expands Visa's online payment, fraud, and security management capabilities. The c

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