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Contactless payments’ popularity is undeniable. Of the 3.5 billion payment cards produced annually, about half are now contactless. With new figures highlighting rapid adoption across Europe, contactl...
GDPR implementation is now weeks away. The impact that GDPR will have on the insurance industry has been well documented. Indeed, I’ve previously commented on it here. Some of the concerns that have
Much like the British weather so far this year, the forecast for British retail in 2018 is mixed. We’ve seen reports of store closures and job losses, but it isn’t all doom and gloom; shopping centre ...
At last - The ‘Beast from the East’ has given way to an African heatwave! Which is great news for retailers, since better weather motivates consumers to refresh their wardrobes, book holidays and spr...
It might sound too good to be true, but there is a way to gain greater visibility over group cash, reduce payments fraud, and extract further value from ERP systems – without migrating decentralized s...
Humans are short-term focused Ever since we were little, our (grand)parents have been pushing us to save more money for unexpected costs. The funny thing is that although many of us understand the con...
Knowingly or unknowingly, we all do analysis and decision making in our daily lives. It could be deciding whether to hit the gym, which doctor to go to, which school to put your kid in and even for th...
Regardless of how a software development project was contracted (fixed price, time and materials, etc.) or how it was managed from a methodology point of view (Agile, Waterfall, Prince2, …), by the e
This remains to be seen. IATA and Deutsche Bank launch a PSD2 based initiative focussed on potential cost reduction with card payments in the airline industry. Certainly an interesting move by Interna...
Diving into one of the more controversial issues in equity market structure, U.S. regulators are moving forward with the transaction-fee pilot that will force stock exchanges to lower the fee caps on ...
The digitalization of the banking industry is rising, especially due to ready-to-use digital banking solutions provided by IT vendors. But are these solutions really best for their users? What threats...
Gartner’s latest CIO Survey finds that only 1% of the more than 3,000 chief information officers (CIO) surveyed indicated any kind of blockchain adoption within their organizations, and only 8 percent...