Hi everyone. After a week away, I’m back: relaxed, recharged and reinvigorated. I don’t know about you, but when I get back to the office I immediately wonder, “What’s happened? What’s new? What’s changed?” Looking at SIBOS, the SWIFT tradeshow starting in Vienna next week, one thing that should be changing faster is SEPA’s implementation…
The banking industry continually seeks to find cost-effective methods to minimise fraud, although often in a way that creates issues or insecurities with the customer. A great example is the UK’s implementation of Chip&PIN, with Canada, France and other countries implementing similar programs. From a personal perspective, the one thing I have noticed is that…
In times of crisis, there is danger and opportunity, and this is no truer than when there is a recession, stagflation or war. In the 1920’s for example, during the runaway hyperinflationary times of the Weimar Republic, Germans started to create alternative economies using local currencies. This is because the national currency was effectively worthless…
Social networks have created new forms of money already and, as I spend more time playing with these virtual currencies, I can see how they may become the future of money, from a retail and consumer viewpoint anyway. For example, last November, I wrote about the threats of money laundering in virtual worlds. At the…
Social networks have created new forms of money already and, as I spend more time playing with these virtual currencies, I can see how they may become the future of money, from a retail and consumer viewpoint anyway. For example, last November, I wrote about the threats of money laundering in virtual worlds. At the…
Social networks have created new forms of money already and, as I spend more time playing with these virtual currencies, I can see how they may become the future of money, from a retail and consumer viewpoint anyway. For example, last November, I wrote about the threats of money laundering in virtual worlds. At the…
There was a nice little press release from research firm IMS this week headlined, “Smart Card Global Domination Nearing Completion”. The report is all about the fact that there will be over seven billion smart cards issued in 2009. The human race won’t reach seven billion people until 2011, so there will be more smart…
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