4819 Results from /payments
Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia
I was speaking to a software vendor last night who recently had a big project go live at one of the UK's largest banks. When the project was first signed, the vendor was quite a small company (though it has since been acquired). Because of its size, they had to jump through all sorts of hoops to get the deal done, with the bank quite sensibly wanti...
10 December 2008 /payments Finextra50 fintech index
Sriram Natarajan Risk Dog at Credit Risk Fraud Cards Professional
The burgeoning financial crisis is throwing up some unique offerings to consumers. Consumers now have more options - both for products and methods of purchase. This festive season, if you don't relish using your credit card and walking away with the goods immediately, you can get back to good old 'thrift' - where you squirrel up your savings and pa...
08 December 2008 /payments
Retired Member
So ... Barclaycard have introduced a slide-and-go payment system that allows a punter to leave the office via an alternative exit, purchase a banana in the supermarket and then head off, via the library, into the underground (or subway, as the cars all appear to be driving on the right), where a single beep sees him slip-sliding all the way home, ...
03 December 2008 /payments
The government’s recent colossal capital injection into the UK’s banks is obviously a good thing for all those with a vested interest in the banks. Increasing liquidity in inter-bank lending is one piece of the puzzle needed to start fixing the unquestionably broken face of business and finance in the UK. And, while it won’t fix things overnight, ...
02 December 2008 /payments /retail
"In it's sixth Sepa progress report, the ECB welcomes the effort made so far, but stresses that work 'urgently remains to be done' to ensure the success of the Europe-wide project." You don't say? Is anyone surprised? Talk about stating the obvious... With banks being bailed out and IT budgets across the board slashed beyond recognition...
24 November 2008 /payments /retail EBAday
Adam Nybäck System Developer at Anyro
They still use cash to pay bills in the UK in 2008? And now cash for paying things on the internet? This is just too weird.
22 November 2008 /payments
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
Contactless payment technology is getting a big push in the UK courtesy of Barclays, which has started running a prime-time TV advertising campaign. The ad features an office drone travelling home from work in a giant water slide, picking up groceries on the move and passing through payment tolls by waving his card at a reader. It's been an undergo...
20 November 2008 /payments Video extravaganza
FastPayments.co.uk are undertaking a survey into the current state and progression of the scheme following its public launch some months ago. We are interested in understanding an industry view of the schemes benefits, challenges, implementation progression, and likely future development. In a wider sense we expect this survey to inform industry ...
19 November 2008 /payments /retail UK Faster Payments
Congratulations to Paul and everyone at Finextra. Finextra is my number one site for banking news and I have been relying on it for many years. Colin
16 November 2008 /payments
SEB's Benche project fits squarely into the new model Web 2.0 world as an open community platform where trade finance professionals can participate in discussions threads and ask questions of experts and other members. The Benche gets it name from the benches used by Italian merchant bankers in the great grain markets, which became centres for hol...
14 November 2008 /payments Finance 2.0
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