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Andre Malinowski

Andre Malinowski Head of International Business at Computop GmbH

How to choose and use your payment services 3

(3/4) This short blog is number three out of a series of four, addressing steps a merchant organization should take to choose & use their payment service provider. Future environment Now it’s time for your organization to define what your future should look like without any of the restrictions you might currently have. Look at your short-, mid...

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Andre Malinowski

Andre Malinowski Head of International Business at Computop GmbH

How to choose and use your payment services 2

(2/4) This short blog is number two out of a series of four, addressing steps a merchant organization should take to choose & use their payment service provider. Preparation is paramount Choosing and using the right PSP is a collaborative exercise within a merchant organization involving E-commerce, F&A and IT. Include the whole group an...

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Enterprise-wide loyalty: the game banks should be playing

Loyalty professionals have long been using ‘games’ to foster loyal customers, frequent flyer schemes being just one example. In such programmes, the customer is rewarded for his loyalty by progressing to a higher status, bringing with it benefits such as access to an airline lounge or extra baggage allowances. While the notion of gamifying the ret...

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FSA report on customer complaints handling

This week UK banks found themselves in a league table that none of them wanted to lead. The UK Financial Services Authority revealed the banks with the most customer complaints with Barclays perched in top place. So, more proof that customer service and financial services are like oil and water? Of course it is unfair to suggest banks don’t or can’...

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The Holy Grail: The Mobile Wallet

The promise of using our mobile phones as wallets, replacing our credit cards and cash, is a promise that has yet to arrive, but now seems to be just around the corner. Some weeks ago for example, MasterCard presented a demo of Google Wallet in the US on a Sprint Nexus 4G telephone. It is not clear, however, how quickly such a system will be roll...

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Andre Malinowski

Andre Malinowski Head of International Business at Computop GmbH

How to choose and use your payment services 1

(1/4) In the ever-growing complexity of today’s E-commerce world, organizations are facing more and more the challenge of understanding their own needs and identifying and selecting the appropriate business partners for offering E-commerce capabilities. This short blog is number one out of a series of four, addressing steps a merchant organizati...

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What happens when all my customers use Twitter to complain?

I recently realised that this is a question that all my clients raise when they begin engaging with their customers through social media. It was a question I was starting to dread because I wasn’t sure that I had a response. What they mean is: “If we start to provide customer service on Twitter, won’t everyone start using it and then it will become...

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Michael Fuller

Michael Fuller Former Retail Banker at None

Who I am and not what's my limit?

It's not the first time that Banks have asked me daft questions in order to identify me. Every few years of course I have to be sent a new card and as part of that process I have to "activate" it. What do Banks need to know? First that I have received the card and second that I am who I claim to be. By all means ask me about the card I ha...

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The 4 C's of core banking - part 3

A bit overdue, but here’s the third installment of the 4 C’s of core banking. Finding the best way to tackle legacy core systems has re-emerged as a key topic of debate among banks, from top tier global players to smaller, domestic institutions. With their vast, fragmented architectures, banks’ legacy systems are typically cumbersome and lack the ...

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The Importance of Intent -- Why Google might still win

The key battle of this decade on the internet is clearly going to be the battle between Facebook and Google. In the first decade of this century, Google came from a startup to dominate search on a global basis. Since its launch in 2004, Facebook has gathered 750m members into its social network. Until quite recently all the traffic seemed to have ...

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