1270 Results from 2013
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Leading the March Emerging markets are ripe for changing the way business-to-business payments are made. Apart from the need to maintain good supplier relationships, corporates are looking to adopt the advances in payment technology to maintain flexibility and a more harmonized cash cycle. Although reports from a survey[1] indicate that checks acc...
21 January 2013 /payments
A recent blog post from analyst house Forrester has predicted that real-time analytics will be a key focus area within Big Data in 2013. The reason? The ability to quickly take on board new information and react to it is at the heart of business decision-making. To quote Forrester, this means being able to “quickly process incoming data from all ...
In a recent interview, Larry Page shared his view on the secret of Google's success - make your product TEN TIMES better than your rival's. Last week we sent limited information on one of our forthcoming products to some industry analysts and told them we priced it at "below $50", whilst the nearest (big) competitor's price is "abov...
18 January 2013 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
I attended a retail banking conference recently, where the conversation surrounding customer service was more present than I ever could have imagined. I’m no cynic, in fact, I don’t even dabble much in sarcasm but the sincerity of the conversation surprised even the Candide in me. Financial institutions not only want deposits but also customer att...
18 January 2013
What happens if “The Cloud” doesn’t deliver what you need? One answer is to find a cloud that does deliver what you want. With the world being given the impression that “Cloud” means “the public Internet”, many folks aren’t aware of some of the non-Internet cloud approaches that major investment firms around the world are taking. What is a “clou...
I recently saw a presentation that included lots of numbers about the 2012 Olympics – how many people were involved, how many TV channels covered it, etc. One of the numbers that was impressive was about the huge amount of Internet capacity that was being used during the Olympics – over 65 Gbps. But that made me pause for a second, because I had a...
17 January 2013
Julian Farley
It’s January 2013, and yet again a large number of us will have made New Year Resolutions. We optimistically set a goal for the coming 12 months. However as a 2007 study involving 3,000 people showed, 88% of us are doomed to fail, ouch. The classic New Year resolution must be I’m going to get fit and lose weight. We’ll join a gym, be seduced by t...
17 January 2013 /payments
The Payments Council announcement that they will launch their industry-wide mobile payments service is the springboard for mass adoption of mobile payments in the UK. I have to admit a professional interest here – at VocaLink we delivered the database at the heart of the service in December last year, and we operate the underlying payments system...
17 January 2013 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Marc Murphy CEO at Fenergo
The FATCA regulations have been widely tipped to be arriving very soon. However, multiple date changes so far for final FATCA regulations have created a huge amount of uncertainty in the market, which has contributed to making it increasingly difficult for financial institutions to map out product/project timeframes. Nevertheless, even in the abse...
17 January 2013 /regulation /wholesale Data Management 101
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
With the holiday shopping season and after holiday season sales over, it’s time to review our credit card statements and make sure that everything that is on there was something you purchased. With most of us using our card a lot more during this time, there’s more chance of fraud or identity theft. When most of us think of identity theft and bein...
17 January 2013 /security
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