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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
Retired Member
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The US is enamored with outdated and costly modality that is costing Billions in lost revenue and fraud.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
There seems to be a general feeling of satisfaction in the market with the current levels of e-invoicing growth in Europe. Growth rates of 40% are often mentioned, and at first sight, that seems promising. However, the current market for e-invoicing has a key characteristic that inhibits sustainable growth: E-invoicing is a buyer driven market. Lar...
02 August 2011 /payments /retail Finance 2.0
Abdul runs a ‘kirana’ (a small grocery) store in Dharavi, the world’s largest slum in Mumbai. The area is also the hub of several financial inclusion, remittance and micro-lending initiatives. Abdul is now exposed to both mobile and card based banking and payment systems, as he sees new age ‘bank’ staff affiliated to Business Correspondents traver...
So now you are able to use your very own webcam as a credit card reader. I'm not sure that holding your card in front of your webcam is going to be that much easier than typing in around 20 characters: the number of people who have enough problems getting themselves "in shot" properly would lead me to think that this isn't going to be al...
02 August 2011 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
I am a big fan of Amazon. I think it is a brilliant example of making consumers’ lives easier and adding value, especially with their system of recommendations. I’m sure as a business tool it works really well for Amazon – increasing the average ‘basket’ value. But there’s a problem. My wife also shops from my account sometimes, or we buy things f...
01 August 2011 /payments
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