A Trade Confidence Index for Asia
This morning my inbox had a big file full of pdf documents talking about business confidence across Asia courtesy of HSBC. It was fascinating stuff so here’s the summary: In the first survey of its kind, the HSBC Trade Confidence Index asked 2,100 trade-oriented small to medium sized enterprises in seven markets – China, India,…
A Trade Confidence Index for Asia
This morning my inbox had a big file full of pdf documents talking about business confidence across Asia courtesy of HSBC. It was fascinating stuff so here’s the summary: In the first survey of its kind, the HSBC Trade Confidence Index asked 2,100 trade-oriented small to medium sized enterprises in seven markets – China, India,…
iPhone’s BIG NEWS: micro-payments
A nice news report on Pocket Gamer's website, that says iPhone's developers are getting all excited about micro-payments, a new feature in the new iPhone 3.0 software: "Right now, the only way to charge someone for your iPhone game is through a standard App Store purchase. You get your money up front, but you can't…
A real-time global pulse
As we use low latency systems, faster payments, twitter and other technologies, we silently watch the revolution of our world from local to global communities, and to a real-time global pulse. The thing is, do you ever stop to notice? The fact that you can trade in a millionth of a millionth of a second,…
The total view on SEPA and the PSD
At the payments conference I attended last week, a major theme was the Payment Services Directive (PSD) and Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA). Summarising the PSD and SEPA areas makes for interesting reading, and builds upon the two entries I made last week about the show titled "SEPA may not happen", and "Quantifying views on…
The total view on SEPA and the PSD
At the payments conference I attended last week, a major theme was the Payment Services Directive (PSD) and Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA). Summarising the PSD and SEPA areas makes for interesting reading, and builds upon the two entries I made last week about the show titled "SEPA may not happen", and "Quantifying views on…
Quantifying people’s views on SEPA
The conference that Johnny Brit addressed was attended by around 300 people, mostly bankers and payments solutions providers from across Europe. Throughout the conference, interactive electronic voting was used to gauge people's views of the markets, the economic crisis and the implementation of SEPA. Here are the results. The first question was: What is the…
Quantifying people’s views on SEPA
The conference that Johnny Brit addressed was attended by around 300 people, mostly bankers and payments solutions providers from across Europe. Throughout the conference, interactive electronic voting was used to gauge people's views of the markets, the economic crisis and the implementation of SEPA. Here are the results. The first question was: What is the…
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