1013 Results from 2011
Retired Member
From commuters reading their morning papers on their iPads to the latest devices being displayed at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, tablet computers are certainly hard to miss at the moment. While businesses are keen to keep up with technological developments, the Enterprise Tablet Market is still finding its feet. However, it...
20 January 2011 Innovation in Financial Services
“You could be a meteorologist all your life and never see something like this. It would be... the perfect storm.” So goes a classic line in one of the few great Hollywood fishing epics. The Perfect Storm finds fisherman George Clooney and his shipmates venturing out into dangerous waters and being trapped between two momentous and powerful storm fr...
20 January 2011 /regulation
India is at the cusp of evolving a radical mobile-based banking & payments framework, which could potentially revolutionize the approach to financial inclusion and electronic payments. With over 700 million mobile connections, and growing, much has been written about the opportunity for leveraging the mobile to empower citizens to conduct safe ...
20 January 2011 /payments Finance 2.0
I'm often contacted to discuss potential projects where many companies wish to opt to for a paperless Direct Debit process over the internet. It seems an obvious enhancement to the processes of many businesses - take the paperwork away and everything becomes much easier to attract new customers. If only it was that simple. Your sponsoring bank w...
20 January 2011
Troubled times seem to create an opportunity to display ethical behaviour. The recent events in Tunisia have given the banking community a perfect opportunity to display their ethics. Some have done well. I would like to give all who do very public credit. In this age of social networking and information sharing the reputation of a bank can be shar...
20 January 2011 Whatever...
In 2020 e-invoicing has to be the predominant method of invoicing in Europe, according to European Commission. In its Communication ‘Reaping the benefits of electronic invoicing for Europe’ and in its Decision ‘Setting up the European Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Electronic Invoicing’, the EC sets out several actions to reach its 2020 vision. Under...
19 January 2011 Innovation in Financial Services
Electronic invoicing and e-billing can easily be plotted on the ‘hype cycle of emerging technology’, when taking a look at posts, discussions and tweets over the past few years. Also the items that make part of e-invoicing and e-billing can be plotted on this cycle, once developed by Gartner. Currently it seems that electronic invoicing and e-bill...
Roy McPherson
This is not one of our usual commercial discussions but in times of need you use the weapons to hand. Hugh's Fish Fight - Half of all fish caught in the North Sea is thrown back overboard dead www.fishfight.net Half of all fish caught in the North Sea is thrown back overboard dead. By supporting this campaign, your name will be added to a letter to...
19 January 2011
I have been promoting e-invoices over 5 years. I still have high hopes for it, but still there is something what is missing. This morning after advising my old dad how to use e-invoices, I started to count how many different routes I receive my e-invoices. One comes to my online bank, other comes as email notification from e-invoice portal provide...
19 January 2011 /payments Transaction Banking
As the Dodd-Frank deadline for mandatory clearing approaches, most tier one banks have already established their basic OTC Clearing capabilities using tactical or semi-strategic solutions. However, banks now need to go one step further and create value-added services that have the potential to draw clients away from other more “standard” clearin
18 January 2011 /regulation /wholesale
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