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Why do companies continue to pay by check? In part five of the series, “The Top 5 Reasons Why Checks Still Dominate B2B Payments,” I explore the challenges of corporate inertia and resistance to change. Reason #5 - Corporate Inertia and Resistance to Change. Let’s face it, organizational change is difficult. For some, the risk of change exceeds ...
29 March 2011 /payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
Wrote this last year: "So sensemaking to let citizens log in to public sector with e-bank log-on tools. This is so saving both tax payer's money and speeding up e-government as tools are familiar, trusted and much more convenient than any public-sector-only tool would be. Several countries have already this so obviously beneficial public-pri...
29 March 2011 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
In response to the blog about "Google partners Citi and MasterCard on NFC m-payments", I thought I would give you my thoughts on the NFC options that are out there. It might only be Citi for now, but I suspect all of the major banks are looking at this. There are effectively 3 ways of achieving NFC in your phone/mobile device and each ...
2010 was a good growth year for e-invoicing using the Finvoice standard in Finland. 71% growth – now 14,4m (good bank statistics available). This would on EU-level equal 1 billion invoices. 1,1 million e-invoice requests-to-receive) were sent – EU equivalent would be 71m. Other formats (TEAPPS and Edifact ) exceed 100m in a conservative estimate. ...
28 March 2011 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Ray Kurzweil eminently presents his views in this video. Singularity it will be – maybe not dramatically – like the Computer with its superior artificial intelligence having become so good at improving itself and its friends (with exponential speed) that It one day will stand up and say: “Thank you humans for having created me. I will take over fr...
26 March 2011 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Craig Ramsey Head of Real-Time Payments at ACI Worldwide
As the IPS conference in London drew to a close yesterday one theme was coming through loud and clear: there are plenty of new payments methods emerging into the mainstream, such as mobile, and lots of new ways to interact with customers. The innovation in the retail banking sector is impressive, but it seems not to be met by an equal level of inn...
25 March 2011 /payments /wholesale
Nick Green Consultant at ISD Consultants
It’s hard to believe that the I installed first online transaction capture point of sale terminal on March 25th 1986 and today there are millions of them worldwide (see the original press release here (http://www.isdconsultants.com/pdq/pdq.pdf). The original name for the Barclaycard terminals was Darts but just as the product was launched the Ford
25 March 2011 /payments
Instead of each bank creates their own new services, is there a need for customer created banking services? Current world Today if I have a new and brilliant idea of new banking service, I tell my own bank this idea. Most of the times (9999/10000) it is automatically rejected. This means that I don't go to other banks and get same feedback. Idea My...
24 March 2011 /payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
Yesterday at the IPS conference in London, a major theme emerged for payment banks: managing costs is no longer enough to maintain a successful payments business – banks simply have to become more efficient. Overlaying this realisation is the concern surrounding regulatory reform. At the conference, 67% of attendees admitted that regulatory reform ...
24 March 2011 /payments /wholesale
Steve Scott Senior Product Manager, Business Banking at Temenos
It's interesting to hear it said at IPS2011 that performing real time reconciliation is crucial to managing liquidity risk . I would agree with this but for the fact that if the demand is really there then why is it that the necessary data is so hard to come by? Crucial implies that this is must have data, but what are banks doing to ensure tha...
23 March 2011 /payments /regulation SWIFT Matters
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