1013 Results from 2011
John Doyle Director at The Payments Business
Change always comes at a price, and VocaLink needs to change; and Marion is the price. It would be unkind and unfair to view her time as CEO as a failure because she made a huge difference at VocaLink. Under her watch the organisation moved from a government bureaucracy to a commercial company that had a voice in Europe. At the same time as develo...
07 December 2011 /payments UK Faster Payments
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
This is the natural next step after the VAT directive simplyfying life for SMEs. now banks should move in to provide the reporting sidestream in their e-invoicing services and in parallel develope the splitpayment model - automating the payments. 60 million workdays can be saved in enterprises - and more tax collected cost-efficiently. http://ec...
06 December 2011 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Retired Member
There is a lot of activity in the mobile payments space, with companies of all sizes, including Google, PayPal, Visa, MasterCard (with their recent investment in mFoundry), American Express, retail banks and start-ups all vying to win over consumers and retailers. Providing issues around convenience and security can be overcome, consumers and reta...
06 December 2011 /retail
With an average of only 322 subjects interviewed per country its a very small sample. If the subject group surveyed were early adopters, then this would further skew the data. or if EBAY was where the respondents were recruited from... As previously mentioned - in the current recession Debit is much more actively used than credit, and Paypal is ...
06 December 2011
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
Do you facilitate disruptive environments in order to engage GenY, digital natives? Are you involved in the gamification of the customer experience? Do work for a 'social' business? Will banking as we know it be disrupted by dramatic consumer behaviour shifts? Can anyone tell me what any of the above actually means? Really? In plain, simple languag...
02 December 2011 /retail Whatever...
Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group
"What’s past is prologue" wrote Shakespeare in “The Tempest”. The phrase means that history repeats itself and continually influences the present. Nothing can be truer if we consider what financial institutions (FIs) are doing today with their global transaction services platforms and compare it with what some software and information te...
02 December 2011 /wholesale Transaction Banking
Hans Tesselaar Executive Director at BIAN
Earlier this month, Frankfurt played host to the 14th annual Euro Finance Week, which attracted more than 7,000 attendees. The four day event provided the ideal meeting place for heads of industry in the financial sector to network and review international issues across banking, insurance and pensions. Inevitably, the European debt crisis dominate...
01 December 2011 /retail
Mobile payments, mobile banking, mobile commerce. These are the buzzwords around at the moment with new schemes being launched every day. Which particular concept will be successful is difficult to tell. Indeed as different countries and different population segments have different expectations there are likely to be several models needed to ma...
01 December 2011
Before any pick-up game as a kid -- or now for that matter -- we always set up the rules. The more complex the game, the longer everyone must wait to play. But participants in the capital markets cannot suspend their work, starting with the 2008 financial meltdown and ending who-knows-when, as Dodd-Frank, Basel III and other regimes get sorted. So ...
01 December 2011 /regulation
Miloslav Hoschek Freelancer at e-Silk Road, NGO
TILL 2050 THERE WILL COME TO EUROPE 1,3 BILLION NEW MIGRANTS..... copyright Miloslav HOSCHEK PhD independent consultant mhoschek/ad/gmail.com
01 December 2011 /payments /regulation Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
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