1270 Results from 2013
Colin Weir CEO at Moroku
There is no doubting that a bank's commercial enterprise, like any business is to make money and provide returns for shareholders. At the heart of the value proposition is the removal of risk involved in money and its exchange, whether at a retail, business or market level. All of this is fairly standard and has been in force since banks began. Ye...
15 November 2013 /retail
Jane Adams Marketing at Currently looking for a job
A few weeks ago I wrote about the results of the consumer research we carried out in the US when we asked consumers who they most trusted to issue mobile wallets. We also asked the same question in the UK and the results were a little more encouraging. Here only 42% said they would never use a wallet, meaning 58% would. This 58% figure in favour i...
14 November 2013 /payments
Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia
I first read about Bitcoin a number of years ago, and was intrigued. I scanned Satoshi Nakamoto's initial whitepaper that kicked it all off, and looked into the burgeoning scene emerging around Bitcoin mining - generating the proof-of-work required to discover a particular hash value to generate a new valid coin by expending CPU power and electric...
14 November 2013 /payments Future Finance
Retired Member
How do you get the balance right between customer service and security? The battle between banks and fraudsters is ongoing, with banks losing millions each year through fraud. In addition, the rise of digital and mobile banking over the past few years has led to banks investing heavily in their fraud and security measures. These authentication devi...
14 November 2013 /security
In the cash management world, new cash pooling technology has the potential to drive significant efficiencies for both banks and multinational corporations. We all know that cash pooling is a valuable tool for treasurers to manage their liquidity position. The key for this lies in investing in the right technology with the right solutions. Cash
14 November 2013 /wholesale
The Chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has given a speech in which he considered ESMA’s work to date and laid out ESMA’s plans for the future, emphasising in particular: that ESMA seeks greater legal powers to ensure it can uphold the EU’s increased role in financial market regulation and supervision; the importance of m...
14 November 2013 Financial Services Regulation
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
Did you know you can buy Social Security numbers (SSNs) online? It’s legal to do so in most cases, and pretty much anyone who has an internet connection can make a purchase. Information brokers or data brokers, as they are known, sell this information in the form of background checks. In some instances, the SSN needs to be provided to get the back...
13 November 2013 /security
I read with interest, as I am sure many US Governed Financial Institutions do, the suggested bill introduced to the US house ‘HR3317 – to deter Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing’. Clearly, the Bill, which was only introduced in October 2013 by Maxine Waters, and is of course not yet law, seeks to further tighten up penalties for offences. To...
13 November 2013 /regulation Financial Services Regulation
Are you part of the tax regimes that the mandate effects? Argentina announced last October 31, 2013 that effective January 1, 2014, it would no longer support the “factura local” web service and would require companies to instead use the more detailed “factura MTX” web service instead. The local web service (also known as “sin details” or without ...
13 November 2013 Electronic invoicing
I read a recent article by Richard Dyson on Muzak and retailification of bank branches with great interest. Dyson highlights how some customers can feel alienated by the pace of change in branches. And yet banks are going through a revolution of change and becoming more retail. How can these trends be reconciled? Some banks have sought to create ...
13 November 2013 /retail
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