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Retired Member
Missed EBAday? Or perhaps momentarily lost concentration and missed a crucial point during a speech? I do that a lot in the afternoon. Where was I? Oh yes - no problem - here are all the Powerpoints for you to relive the whole experience in the comfort of your own surroundings. Day one Stream 1 15:45 New Business Opportunities through evolving ...
11 June 2007 /payments EBAday
Nick Hastings
On the flight back to London from another successful EBAday (www.ebaday.com) I had the closing video sound track in my head. We aptly selected Europe’s Final Countdown as anyone involved with SEPA will appreciate that the final countdown is well and truly on. Two days later I still had the Final Countdown rocking in my head so I decided to downloa...
08 June 2007 /payments /retail EBAday
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
Blogging from Rome at the annual EBAday conference, a European payments forum organised by Finextra and the Euro Banking Association. Delegates attending the show are looking for guidance and insight as the deadlines loom for the creation of a Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa). Sepa was the big draw at last year's inaugural show in Frankfurt and th...
04 June 2007 /payments /retail EBAday
Hoss Atri Head of Institutional Partnerships at Elifinty LLC
........Echoing Chris Skinner's comments, pre-paid is a very attractive market with fantastic potential. Other interesting facts about the taget market of 18 - 34 year old UK folk include: Est. annual spending power of £500 - £35,000Mobile , networked communities/packsBelievers in "Causes"Little interest in politicsActive social lifeT...
30 May 2007 /payments
Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia
With SIA-SSB and EBA Clearing putting the final touches on the SEPA Services for STEP2 over the next month, banks are gearing up to begin testing credit transfers from July, with testing windows for direct debits coming later in the year. Giorgio Ferrero, Chairman of EBA CLEARING, says 90 banks have already signed up for Sepa credit transfer testin...
25 May 2007 /payments EBAday
Matt White North America editor at Finextra
The threat to the two giants of the card payments industry seems to be growing. Opposition to interchange fees and the emergence of alternatives could shake up the industry. According to The Economist, the average percentage of each transaction cost taken up by interchange in the US has risen from 1.52% in 2000 to 1.88% in 2006. And in America the ...
25 May 2007 /payments
EBAday is now less than a fortnight away. You may like to know that the latest EBAday agenda is available to download as a PDF on the EBAday web site. If you've any comments on the agenda - log in and start a blog about it or add a short comment to this item if you prefer.
25 May 2007 /payments /wholesale EBAday
A while back I blogged about the potential of biometric ATMs. I was taken by the news that they are being used to pay illiterate workers in India but my hopes for this technology to make the world a better place seem a tad optimistic. Diebold CEO Tom Swidarski is dismissive about the potential for biometric cash machines because he feels that all ...
24 May 2007 /payments
Douglas Jackson, chairman and founder of digital cash enterprise e-gold, has mounted a spirited defence against an indictment charging e-gold Ltd., Gold & Silver Reserve, Inc., and the directors of both companies with money laundering, operating an unlicensed money transmitter business, and conspiracies to commit both offences. Jackson, speaki...
04 May 2007 /payments /retail
The excellent article Chris Skinner wrote re: SWIFT numbers intrigued me. I wondered if you take these very simple parameters and use them to predict growth, what will SWIFT look like in the coming years? So, as one does, I took the figures he gave in his article and created a spreadsheet which is available by clicking here. (Okay, okay, I had t...
01 May 2007 /payments SWIFT Matters
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