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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

My name is Guy. Same Guy. Reissued

My name is Guy. Mr Same Guy. I show up in as a so called private customer off hours, then during working hours as a corporate customer, as a citizen in public sector services and often also as a member of associations, clubs etc. My point is that there are no corporate customers, no private customers, no citizens etc - only human customers or users...

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Fraud: You're only as good as your last prevention.

The industry analogy is that fraud is like a balloon, you squeeze the fraudsters in one area and they pop out somewhere else. Sometimes it’s predictable like when chip & PIN was introduced, already high CNP fraud rose still further and x-border fraud levels rose (though not as sharply and as quickly as had been forecast) Often, however, th...

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Visa Hungary - Are they are losing their appetite?

If the recent article published on the Pymnts web site is accepted then it seems that Visa may be considering an exit strategy from Hungary in the face of substantial, and continuing, market share loss to MasterCard. According to the article, and cross referenced pieces, Visa’s problems stem from a commitment made to the EC to reduce (debit card)...

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The effect of Mega Processors on card scheme fees?

It is becoming increasingly obvious to me that the Global and Regional card payment processing organisations have their sights set, if not on world or territorial domination, certainly on ever increasing size and scale. Where organic growth fails to deliver to aspirations, smaller operations are routinely acquired. Assuming this trend continues...

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You want to think Outside the Box. Then get Outside the Box!

Have you noticed it? I’ve been into countless financial service organisations and a recurring theme I’ve observed in practically all of them is that where staff come together (canteen, seminar, Christmas parties, etc.) and even generally around the office there is a tendency for the upper levels of management to congregate into their respective...

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What's the Incentive in being a Super Achiever?

Is there any real incentive? As a general rule, though I accept there are exceptions at a corporate level and for certain sections of employees, most financial services companies will cap bonuses and use prior year performance as the measure for the following year’s performance objectives. Now if I have a whizzo idea that I know will, let’s say...

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Price Transparency in Banking

Don’t let anyone tell you different, price transparency in Banking has come on a long way since my early experiences as a teenager in banking in the 1970’s. I recall being invited to take the printout of business customers into the manager’s office at one of the first branches I worked at so that he could assess the annual fee to be charged to ea...

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Card Issuers do not refer for the fun of it

Both of the international card schemes include in their impressive array of member fee tariffs an assessment fee for Issuers that breach a percentage threshold of authorisation referral responses to authorisation requests received. The percentage is 0.5% but that is incidental. Both card schemes are, of course, fiercely protective of their bran...

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Understanding Health Care EFT Standards: Part II

In-Band vs. Out-of-Band Remittance Delivery… In Part I of my Understanding Healthcare EFT standards blog, I identified several major obstacles for health care providers to adopt EFT (electronic funds transfer) and ERA (electronic remittance advice). In Part II, I will explore the differences between in-band versus out-of-band remittance delivery...

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Martin Bailey

Martin Bailey Technology Product Director at Temenos

Up in smoke

When you're about 4 years of age, piggy in the middle is a fun game, but it kind of loses its lustre by the time you get to 5. At the tender age of 42, I don't ever want to play it ever again, but my bank seems to have different ideas. When my wife asked me to make a payment to her friend - no problem, I thought. I've paid her once already, so I al...

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