1205 Results from 2008
Sriram Natarajan Risk Dog at Credit Risk Fraud Cards Professional
The onset of the New Year gets me thinking on what are the likely fads and buzz words in 2008. 2007 has already enriched our vocabulary with 'sub prime' , 'Ninja loans' and other such terms that a Credit dog's delight. Come to think of it, some of the fads like mobile payments have been around for some time now! I came across a report by Javelin...
07 January 2008 /regulation /retail
Retired Member
Mobile finance is indeed on the rise, and all indications are that this industry will be at the forefront of transformation in global financial services. This is perhaps no more apparent than in development finance where mobile technology is leveraged to deliver financial services to the unbanked. M-PESA, for example, a money transfer service ope...
07 January 2008 Trends in Financial Services
At a breakfast meeting at Sibos last year Nicholas Negroponte, MIT professor and founder of the non-profit One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) scheme, convinced even the most cynical amongst the audience - including myself - of the merits and benefits of the "$100 laptop" scheme. The initative aims to supply a laptop - featuring only open source...
04 January 2008
A lot is riding on the little piece of technology we have in our pockets. Besides the telecoms companies and handset manufacturers the most recent industries to stake their future on the 3ounce (85g) electronic gadget are Banks and the Music Industry. Both see the mobile device as the key to a rich and rewarding future. Google and Apple have wade...
03 January 2008 /payments Trends in Financial Services
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
We’ve seen plenty of posts on this community that play with the idea of virtual currencies, the eradication of paper-based cheques and the ultimate demise of hard cash. The emergence of a truly digital economy has been a favourite topic of commentators and futurists since the first stirrings of business interest in the Internet in the mid-1990s. ...
02 January 2008 /payments /retail Trends in Financial Services
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