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Paul Penrose

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

PayPal shows banks how to blog

Billed as the official place for all things PayPal, the online payments pioneer has opened a corporate blog with the following mission statement: "We created The PayPal Blog as a forum for PayPal employees to engage with you -- to connect you with the leaders of our company and capture their insights and opinions. Most importantly, we want to...

/payments /retail Trends in Financial Services

Elton Cane

Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia

CheckFree sale dilutes risk of losing biggest customer

As discussed in this Finextra story from April CheckFree was facing the prospect of losing Bank of America as a customer of its payment processing business. BoA was, and still is as far as I can tell, looking to bring this function in-house and perhaps even start doing payment processing for other firms. The client note by the JMP Securities analys...

/payments Finextra50 fintech index

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Pilgrim's Process

I’m buying and selling houses this year. Sounds very grand, but I assure you that there is minimal wealth involved here. Facts are that the last two junior family members are off to university in central London this September, so Plan 1 - Senior Management and I decided to sell the family pile quick, and move somewhere distant and smaller so that ...

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Paul Penrose

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

The seven billion dollar man

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has tapped Michael Capellas to take over as CEO of First Data when its $7 billion buy out goes through later this year. Capellas made his name as a corporate turnaround artist, first at Compaq and then at MCI. On both occassions he served a short stint in the top seat, savaged costs and sold on the companies for a hefty fee...

/payments /retail Finextra50 fintech index

Paul Penrose

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

Payments online? Just print out and fax back the form

As the main UK payments body, Apacs forecasts payment trends, conducts market research and collates industry statistics. Publications such as ‘The way we pay: UK plastic cards 2007’, come with a £250 price tag and bring together information on how many cards we have and what we spend our money on, both in the high street and online. If you want...

/payments /retail EBAday

Paul Penrose

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

ATM creator forecasts the demise of hard cash

John Shepherd-Baron, the former De La Rue executive credited with inventing the first ever cash machine back in 1967, now believes that the ubiquitous ATM will be made redundant within the next three to five years by the demise of paper cash. Inspiration for the idea of a cash dispensing hole in the wall first struck Shepherd-Baron while he was in...

/payments /retail Trends in Financial Services

John Cant

John Cant Managing Director at MPI Europe Ltd

Faster Payments implementation pressures grow

The initial target of the UK Faster Payments scheme seemed a simple concept to deliver - eliminating float (the three days gap between funds leaving the payee's account and arriving in the recipents) - but as with most financial sector initiatives the implementation detail has been significantly more complex. Back in February this year when I fou...

/payments UK Faster Payments

Olivier Berthier

Olivier Berthier CEO at Moneythor

The LC is dead. No, just kidding.

The developing world and its booming Trade activities still remain very keen on traditional instruments such as the Letter of Credit (LC) and will most likely be for years to come. Even in the US, arguably one of the most prominent countries in the world in terms of their use of open account business, a recent survey by Bank of America of US manufa...

/payments /wholesale Financial Supply Chain

Paul Penrose

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

The carbon currency card

"Imagine a country where carbon becomes a new currency. We carry bank cards that store both pounds and carbon points. When we buy electricity, gas and fuel, we use our carbon points, as well as pounds. To help reduce carbon emissions, the Government would set limits on the amount of carbon that could be used." The words of UK Environment...

/payments /retail Futuristic Banking

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The longest day and Sibos approaches

It's the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere, which means that for us here in London in a few days time the nights will be drawing in - and of course it also means we're getting closer to Sibos. As you probably know, Finextra Research is SWIFT's official online news provider for Sibos 2007 in Boston, delivering that real-time news thing tha...

/payments Finextra@Sibos

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