1270 Results from 2013
Retired Member
Last week I noticed new swedish mobile payment approach, which adds all current debit payment options but is done with mobile phone app. Idea in general works like this. Customer links his current account in his online bank to Swich account and adds his mobile number, verifying account customer gets text message to confirm account. Then downloads ...
29 January 2013 /payments
Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions
Soon after I wrote CTS2010: Cheque Truncation Or Contract Termination System?, a senior banker averred to me in private that India's cheque truncation program had a lot of loose ends. A friend of mine who used to work for a CTS solutions provider pointed out that the program had an ever greater impact on NBFCs than banks (For the uninitiated, a No...
29 January 2013 /payments /retail
Marc Murphy CEO at Fenergo
What a difference a week makes! Since the announcement of the final regulations, it seems that every financial institution has just hit the accelerator button on their FATCA programmes. As a result, we’ve been powering through presentations and demonstrations on how our FATCA solutions work in practice. As part of this, I’ve been giving more tho
28 January 2013 /regulation /wholesale
Keith Appleyard IT Consultant at available for hire
I had fun with RBS Internet Banking on Sunday. When I went to Login as usual via a page dedicated to RBS Customers in England, I got an error message that my Login credentials hd not been recognised. I contacted their Help Desk via Chatroom, and they assured me everything was working correctly, and what I needed to do was delete all my Cookies &...
28 January 2013 Whatever...
Amit Vats Associate Director, Product Management at Edgeverve (an Infosys subsidiary)
The banker’s definition of a ‘channel’ is notably different from that of the vendor community in general, and this is reflected in the kind of solutions existing today, which claim to solve the multi-channel puzzle. For a bank, a channel is a conduit to distribute its products & services to customers, either pushed by the former or pulled by th...
28 January 2013
Today I saw the most effective piece of advertising ever on a cash machine. I rolled up to a Tesco ATM – a nice new NCR device with a video display that normally has a few rolling ads for the supermarket as you wrestle your debit card out of your pocket and into the slot. I was immediately confronted by a rather attractive girl’s eyes staring str...
25 January 2013 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
TeliaSonera (the leading Nordic telco) announced this week in Finland that they will increase the charge for sending paper invoices to corporate customers from 5 to 10€. Consumers are charged 1,90. This clear policy is for sure to be applauded – good for all parties (and big time for society at large) – for the following reasons: 1. The cost savi
Pat Carroll Founder/Executive Chairman at ValidSoft
This month, we saw Europol’s launch of EC3, the new European Cybercrime Centre that aims to be at the heart of combating cybercrime in the EU. As I blogged back in July 2012, it’s fantastic the EU recognise cybercrime as a serious enough issue to warrant a dedicated centre. In my opinion EC3 can help protect Europeans and businesses against mountin...
25 January 2013 /security Information Security
New technologies and tools are quickly cropping up to facilitate lending and account opening. We have pulled together five most important capabilities of a lending system to help you identify the most appropriate solution for loan origination. 1. Intuitive management of loan processing business flow. Visual editor for decision flow is one of the m...
25 January 2013 /retail
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
It’s funny to me that when having conversations about technology people still don’t see the parallel between their smartphone and their computer. Today, smartphone are connected to the Internet and have much of the same information as the personal computer, if not more. Now Androids and other smartphones have become little mini handheld computers. ...
25 January 2013 /security
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