5270 Results from /payments
Retired Member
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
28 July 2010 /payments
Nick Ogden Chairman at Ogden Research
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...
28 July 2010 /payments /retail Innovation in Financial Services
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...
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
27 July 2010 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
The latest newsletter from the European Payments Council (EPC) provides some interesting insights into SEPA migration to date, but offers little advice and guidance to the corporate sector about how best to prepare for SEPA migration. Given the disagreement and confusion around how best to encourage migration to the SEPA Schemes, it is no surpris...
23 July 2010 /payments /wholesale
This blog was created while Mark was working at The Logic Group. Contactless payment technology continues to develop; it is a hot topic of discussion as Barclaycard rolls out an update to its TV advert demonstrating the ease of contactless technology – but will its implementation become a rollercoaster ride for retailers and will hard currency be...
22 July 2010 /payments /retail
Paul Love VP Business Development at Konsentus
Brett King’s Bank 2.0 comment on customer innovation (Is Customer Experience innovation too hard for UK banks?),raises some important questions about how retail banks see their customers through the lens of a bank branch. King makes a valid point that customers are not necessarily seeking branch services and would benefit from improvements to othe...
22 July 2010 /payments
In the past decade there has been a sharp increase in focus on the security of cardholder data held by third parties. High profile data breaches and the associated losses resulting from the fraudulent use of compromised cardholder data have made global headlines and have struck fear into consumers and merchants alike. Well publicised breaches inc
22 July 2010 /security /payments Information Security
Miloslav Hoschek Freelancer at e-Silk Road, NGO
cont. copyright Miloslav HOSCHEK PhD independent consultant mhoschek/ad/gmail.com
21 July 2010 /payments Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
European commission acts to ensure that 8 Member States (Cyprus, Greece, Spain, Poland, Romania,Sweden, Luxembourg and Austria) implement EU rules on payment services and public procurement redress ( see the link for the full press release http://www.europeanpaymentscouncil.eu/documents/EC%20Press%20Release%20Commission%20acts%20to%20ensure%20that%...
20 July 2010 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
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