1147 Results from 2019
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Open Banking – A 2019 Summary Open Banking has been regarded by the financial sector as the most revolutionary movement since the credit card. In 2017, none of us involved in the creation of open banking in the UK, ever thought that it would be globally adopted and so important that, if implemented for all the right reasons, could impact social a...
23 December 2019 /payments Open Banking
Ron Delnevo Chair at UK Cash Supply Alliance
Time to wish a happy 21st Birthday to the ATM installation that changed the face of cash provision in the UK! Yes. That’s right. It is exactly 21 years since the first Independent ATM was installed in this country - and that same ATM was also the very first pay-to-use ATM to be installed in Europe! I was there, at a Spar store in Stone Cross in Bir...
20 December 2019 /payments /retail Financial Inclusion
Doug Gross CEO at NGDATA
Arthur C. Clarke, writer of the famous science fiction epic 2001: Space Odyssey, famously remarked that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. The problem with magical things, however, is that we often ascribe them miraculous powers that are beyond their actual capabilities while ignoring the fact that far greater po...
20 December 2019 Analytics in Banking
Carlo R.W. De Meijer Owner and Economist at MIFSA
19 December 2019 Blockchain Observations
Shemina Jiwani Chief Operating Officer at AscendantFX Capital Inc.
“In the new world, it is not the big fish which eats the small fish, it is the fast fish which eats the slow fish.” – Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum A common theme of late has been to paint fintech’s as the harbingers of death for the banking industry, disrupting their businesses and cutting into their mar...
19 December 2019 /payments Fintech
Gabe McGloin Head of Business Development EMEA at Verifi at Verifi Inc
As we all turn our attention to Christmas travel, we are hoping for twinkling lights, Christmas markets and lots of joy. However, with some of the very public travel disasters that have hit the headlines this year – Thomas Cook comes to mind – many travellers may be more cautious than normal. The tour operator’s collapse earlier this year left ...
19 December 2019 /payments /regulation Fintech
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
Have you heard of SIM swapping? It’s a new trick that hackers are using to get money and mess up your life. What is SIM Swapping? So, what is SIM swapping? It’s when a hacker tricks your cell phone company into thinking that you have activated your SIM card on another phone. In other words, the hackers are taking your phone number and then associa...
19 December 2019 /security
Linda Zaikovska-Daukste Co-founder | COO | CFO at UXDA
There are phenomenal companies that have achieved outstanding results in the banking and Fintech industry. Some of them are very well known, but most are not. What makes a digital banking superstar? Working with hundreds of financial professionals worldwide, we have extracted 10 digital banking trends that characterize the approach of really succe...
19 December 2019 /retail Digital Banking Trends
More and more consumers around the world are turning to prepaid for payments. The question you may be asking yourself is, “Why?” For starters, prepaid is convenient, secure, versatile, easy to use, and accepted almost anywhere. In many ways, prepaid cards work like typical debit or credit cards, except they offer the advantages of both without any...
18 December 2019 /payments /inclusion
Uri Rivner CEO and Co-Founder at Refine Intelligence
As a decade of online fraud fighting is drawing to a close, it’s time to think about the next decade! Fraudsters were very busy this decade, coming up with an ever expanding bag of tricks, and we should expect them to give all of us good reasons to continue the fight. So – here are my top ten cybercrime and online fraud predictions for 2020: Deep...
18 December 2019 /security /payments Digital Banking Trends
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