1270 Results from 2013
Pat Carroll Founder/Executive Chairman at ValidSoft
Is the Micro-merchant a new Threat? Safeguarding from micro-merchants’ fraud Making a payment to a plumber, window-cleaner or nanny – otherwise known as “micro-merchants” – couldn’t be easier or more convenient, thanks to innovative companies such as Square, Spindle and iZettle which have pioneered the dongle-based payment for mobile Retail Paymen...
25 February 2013 /security Innovation in Financial Services
Retired Member
Financial organisations are starting to sweat as the first deadline for FATCA compliance looms on the horizon. Next January 1st will see banks ringing in the New Year with new account opening procedures to identify US account holders and classify them into a FATCA category. Moreover, by the end of next year, they will need to conduct look-back on...
25 February 2013 /regulation /wholesale
Eric Smith Senior Pre-Sales Consultant at Dynamic Partners
Did you see the news item about the fossil discovery that they say is the “missing link” and “ancestor of all mammals”? A small shrew-like creature that became the whales, penguins, kangaroos and humans we know today. Miraculous! Isn’t Mother Nature wonderful in how it can adapt? Yet this evolution took place over thousands, even millions of years...
25 February 2013 /payments
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
A lot of time and effort has been spent on automating manufacturing and logistics in large companies. Less has been spent on their administrative processes. Automation of SME administration and government reporting still appears as virgin territory. More https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=7407 As the SME sector stand for some 65% ...
23 February 2013 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Is SME-sector competitiveness important? If governments consider SME-sector competitiveness important (65% of corporate turnover and all growth in employment come from them) they should do something about red tape and automation of administrative processes. The key to the latter is fast migration to structured e-invoicing - paving the way to autom...
22 February 2013 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
There is no doubt that EMIR is still on track. February 2013 opened with a cliff-hanger of a week that saw the European Securities Market Association (ESMA) (responsible for building the single rule book across European Union financial markets and ensuring its consistent application and supervision) present for EU Parliamentary scrutiny its Regula...
21 February 2013 /regulation
Mukesh Gupta Director at SAP India Pvt ltd
Farmers in India are offered Kisan Credit Cards to provide adequate and timely support from the banking system to the farmers for their short-term credit needs. The banking industry can take a clue from this and introduce a retailer credit card for exclusive use by small-time retailers to pay to their suppliers. The idea: Banks to offer small r...
21 February 2013 /retail
When it’s a clothes horse. Or in a burger, where it’s masquerading as a cow. Okay, I’ve used a popular news story to entice you into this article, but the point I wish to make is exceptionally valid. Fraud is everywhere. In my previous blogs I typically discuss fraud as if it’s an online-only activity, but the truth is it can happen anywhere, in ...
20 February 2013 /regulation /retail
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
Congress and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have taken special steps to ensure that children under 13 years of age don’t share their personal information on the Internet without the express approval of their parents. Congress passed the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) in 1998 and the FTC wrote a rule implementing the law. The ...
19 February 2013 /security
Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions
Many banks tend to view Mobile Banking as a truncated version of Internet Banking and most of them offer mobile banking only to their existing Internet Banking users. This approach completely negates the true potential of mobile - after all, if I check my account balance once a week, make one or two fund transfers per month and don't buy more than...
19 February 2013
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