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An innovative approach to U.S. card payment security?

A report just launched by the Smart Card Alliance (SCA) suggests that stakeholders in the U.S. payments industry examining end-to-end encryption should consider the use of contactless chip cards along with dynamic cryptograms in the fight against fraud. While the merits of end-to-end encryption have received a lot of ink in recent months following ...

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Sibos 2009 - Tuesday

After having survived the typhoon, the real business of Sibos has started: debating the key issues facing banks and their corporate customers. SEPA migration is still a key topic with its implications for potential Asian payments consolidation. Many of the delegates to whom I have spoken have expressed the feeling that we are still talking about th...

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Hub or hoax?

Day two and yet again talk about ‘hubs’ has been circulating through the conference. This is a perennial topic with barely a presentation or talk going by when the word ‘hub’ is not applied to yet another part of the payments industry as if the term alone will be the panacea for all things technological. Quite frankly, none of this helps as it is ...

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The real storm is coming

As the typhoon raged over us here at Sibos last night, I couldn’t help but think of the new storm that is brewing over the western banks as we speak. The reason I thought this was that ironically the cause of this storm is here in Asia. As an active player in the Asian market, we have been cautiously optimistic to see our Asian customers and prosp...

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Transparency and 21st Century Transaction Systems

I started out trying to improve consumer processes and interactions. This entailed connecting the dots between what was already out there in a consumer friendly and easy to adopt manner. It was pointless without connecting the financial dots because that was literally where the money was in the process. Hence the transaction system, which could hav...

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Sibos 2009 - Monday

I'm hoping that we're not starting a new tradition of "crisis Monday" at Sibos. Last year, it was fears of banking system collapse and this year it's the imminent typhoon threat to the over 5,000 attendees at the Hong Kong Conference and Exhibition centre. Perhaps to get it out of the way before Sibos had properly started, the industry an...

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Elizabeth Lumley

Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted

The PSD -- threat or opportunity?

Are you anticipating the upcoming Payments Services Directive with fear, excitement or indifference? Do you see the emergence of additional PIs in Europe as competition or as a business opportunity? To find out how your peers feel about the PSD you have to take part in Finextra's Sibos survey - The PSD - Markets Opportunities Survey. Launched at Si...

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Bo Harald

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

Monday at 12.15 at SIBOS in Hong Kong

Extended payments - everything is the same presentation at Open Theatre Synopsis: 1. Up the value chain - new value = new revenues for banking sector 2. Four economics 3. Three neutralities 4. Twosided networks 5. One generic messaging platform 6. It is all the same - infinite opportunities

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Sibos 2009 - Sunday

As I rode in to Hong Kong on the very efficient Airport Express train, I noticed something about this Sibos venue which differs from many of the previous locations: industry. It's impossible to escape the fact that Hong Kong's shipping business is on a scale that defies description and many of those electronic, plastic and textile goods are produce...

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Stanley Epstein

Stanley Epstein Associate at Citadel Advantage Group

Are We Heading Into Chaos - Again?

This is the time of year when the financial services industry, or at least the "techie" element heads off to some exotic venue for the annual SWIFT jamboree. SWIFT as we all know is the global financial messaging operator. And as part and parcel of what they do, they have also created the messaging standards on which the financial world ...

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