4733 Results from /payments
Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia
Last week, as Visa USA president and CEO John Coghlan called for closer collaboration between the payment card and mobile industries (see Finextra article here), how this collaboration might work in practice was being discussed at the Digital Money Forum event in London. O2 is one of the network operators currently investigating near-field communic...
02 April 2007 /payments /retail Trends in Financial Services
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
The latest upgrade to the Skype internet telephony system is now available for download in beta format. Significant new features include the ability to incorporate a video snapshot and to send and receive money across the network using PayPal. If you’re adventurous and an experienced Skype user you can download the Skype 3.2 Beta for Windows versio...
29 March 2007 /payments /retail Trends in Financial Services
After unsuccessfully dabbling with the mobile channel at the turn of the decade, US banks now appear ready to make a serious play for real-estate space on the consumer cell phone. Bank of America, which announced its return to the mobile arena earlier this year, will soon be followed by BancorpSouth, SunTrust, Regions and Wachovia, who have signe...
28 March 2007 /payments /retail Trends in Financial Services
Bob Ford Vice President at Barcays Bank plc
I have some fun over the past year with my Bank (nameless at this point for various reasons) discussing with them SEPA and my needs as a customer. My first problem came when I wanted to pay for my attendance at the EBA Day. The requirement was to pay EUR840 from my Euro Account in the UK to the Finestra Euro Account at Coutts and Co. I know that t
23 March 2007 /payments SEPA and European Payments
Hoss Atri Head of Institutional Partnerships at Elifinty LLC
According to finextra, Mr Javier Perez, president, MasterCard Europe is quoted as saying : "The single euro payments area may currently be a term recognised in finance circles, but what the man-on-the-street needs to know is that they can use their debit card in the same way anywhere in Europe as in their own country" I am a Master
22 March 2007 /payments
For merchants and consumers alike, speed of throughput at the check-out remains the primary incentive for uptake of a new payments format. This is why SMS-based mobile phone payment programmes such as that promoted by Belgium’s Banksys and wireless operators Base, Mobistar and Proximus, will never make the cut. It may be cool and funky to pay by ...
22 March 2007 /payments /retail Futuristic Banking
Retired Member
I rang the Alliance & Leicester this morning and spoke to the Call Centre and explained that I had read a lot about the recovery of charges and wanted to know what I had to do to query and possibly recover mine. The very nice lady explained that they would send me a form and I had to complete it and return it with 10 pounds and that the bank th...
20 March 2007 /payments /retail Trends in Financial Services
Registration for Swift's annual conference and exhibition, Sibos 2007, officially opens today. Taking place in Boston, US, from 1 to 5 October 2007, the theme of this year's event is 'Gaining momentum'. Interesting to see that Swift has dealt with a long-standing beef from exhibitors and provided open access to the conference sessions for all par...
19 March 2007 /payments /wholesale Finextra@Sibos
Finextra, in common with much of the financial press has covered the issue of bank charges in depth and because of the press coverage I conducted my own investigation this weekend and was surprised to discover that my bank, the Alliance & Leicester, has charged me over 1,500 pounds in the last 2 years for overdraft, bounced payments and intere...
19 March 2007 /payments /retail Trends in Financial Services
Shares in Lloyds TSB have firmed up on weekend reports that UK ATM network operator Link has emerged as the frontrunner to buy the bank's share registration arm. Link, backed by US buy-out firm Bain Capital, is leading a short list of about four trade and private-equity suitors for Lloyds TSB Registrars, according to this report in the Sunday Time...
19 March 2007 /payments /retail Finextra50 fintech index
Welcome to Finextra. We use cookies to help us to deliver our services. You may change your preferences at our Cookie Centre.
Please read our Privacy Policy.