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Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
As principal researcher for Nokia, Jan Chipchase travels around the world looking at how people live their lives and interact with new technology. In this video presentation he turns the spotlight on street-level innovation in mobile communications and commerce, and questions the implications for payments, identity and banking in the future. It's...
20 December 2007 /payments /retail Video extravaganza
Retired Member
Here's something that could have a big impact on how payment schemes are going to compete in the future. European regulators are expected tomorrow to force MasterCard to cut interchange fees, but the devil’s in the details - everyone will be watching to see what the ruling actually says. Here's what I'll be looking for tomorrow. Check out the full...
18 December 2007 /payments SEPA and European Payments
If a bank like A & L offers on one hand deposit accounts and on the other hand prepaid accounts - where does the regulator draw the line between the two fundamentally different services? How does the bank know who holds the prepaid account it the card and account is handed over as a gift to somebody else than the original purscaser? Are the pr...
17 December 2007 /payments
Sriram Natarajan Risk Dog at Credit Risk Fraud Cards Professional
I chanced to see a seemingly innocuous news item on PayPal launching a Beta version of its Store Widget- http://storefront.paypallabs.com/. I am not sure if the Cards and Payments industry is cognizant of the potential implications of the success of this offering! Ok, how does an online store operate today (I am including the likes of EBay)? Th...
09 December 2007 /payments
John Cant Managing Director at MPI Europe Ltd
The humble cheque seems to have some very keen supporters as Ian Benn's blog demonstrates, so I thought it was worth sharing some material extracted from the most recent MPIE Financial Sector Bulletin (to receive a full copy of this bulletin each month just send an email containing the word subscribe to contact at mpi-europe.com) Over the last 10...
05 December 2007 /payments UK Faster Payments
Further to my jottings to on the subject of using mobile numbers as citizen IDs, I thought I would get more into details on the subject. Mobile phones can be the tipping point of reaching out the 'next billion' unbanked mass. Prima facie, I am sure we all agree that riding on an existing infrastructure is much better alternative than trying to st...
04 December 2007 /payments /regulation
As my blog stands for Practical Cash Management, first blog posting title should be a bit easier to understand than it is now. But as we are only few days away from the first real SEPA implementations, I have been thinking what not to say to my customers (and what is good to say) and what to do when thinking their bank accounts in different banks....
26 November 2007 /payments
Royal Bank of Scotland is to conduct internal staff trials of mobile payment technology using MasterCard's PayPass contactless system. News of the pilot comes the day after the card scheme announced plans for a public trail of the technology in downtown Oslo with DnB Nor and Telenor. Field trials have also been scheduled for Japan. The latest in...
23 November 2007 /payments /retail Trends in Financial Services
Alan Goodrich Regional Sales Manager at ERI
First of all, credit where credit is due - the title concept is attributable to one of my colleagues, not me - thank you Howard! Yesterday evening we attended a lively Financial Services Club session of the Supply Chain Management Forum focus group chaired by Eric Sepkes. The guest speaker was Shaun Maine, who happens to be Chairman of the TWIST Te...
23 November 2007 /payments /sibos Financial Supply Chain
Depending on your local bank/public holidays, there are just 45 business days to "SEPA Day"..! I can't help wondering just how "SEPA-ready" banks and corporates really are with effectively just 9 weeks to "LIVE" date to go..? SEPA may not be as big a deal as the Euro and Y2K in terms of the consequences of not being re...
21 November 2007 /payments /sibos SEPA and European Payments
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