The Top Payments News Stories in August, 2015
Payments news in August was dominated by 4 themes – cyber security, mobiles payments, fintech and IT glitches. Financial services are increasingly being driven by technology and various IT glitches...
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Payments news in September was dominated by three themes – cyber-security, mobile payments and fintech (of course!). Reports of cyber security breaches and the increasing adoption of fingerprint...
View ArticleThe Top Payments News Stories in October, 2015
This is a bumper edition of Payments News in October 2015. What an incredible month..! From a European perspective PSD2 was rubber-stamped, there were Payments Reports galore, countless fintech related...
View ArticleThe Top Payments News Stories in November, 2015
Payments news stories in November 2015 have been dominated by disruptive technologies and companies…. A continued focus of fintech, fintech investments, blockchain related collaboration, mobile...
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What is the SWIFT Global Payments Innovation Initiative ?
For anybody interested in payments and SWIFT, the SWIFT announcement last week of a Global Payments Innovation initiative was hardly a bombshell. In fact with all of the hype around fintech companies...
View Article16 Global Payments Trends for 2016 by McKinsey
Its been an incredible 2015 and many commentators are now looking ahead to forecast what payments trends will be prominent in 2016. Readers of this blog will know that i follow McKinsey quite a bit...
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8 Christmas Myths, 7 Fintech Tales and a Partridge in a Pear Tree
Alright, so i am about ready to put on my Christmas jumper and start celebrating the festive season. Before i do i thought i would share some, what i found, interesting Christmas myths alongside a list...
View ArticleThe Top Payments News Stories in December, 2015
Here we are on the brink of 2016, and like every month this year i have rounded up the top payments news stories. The main story that seems to have emerged this month is the continued growth of...
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2015: The Major Payments News Stories with an Epic Twist
Its New Years Eve and like many people I’m looking back and pondering on 2015. There are some pretty cool and intelligent fintech and payments news reviews of 2015 (see sources at the end of this...
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The World Is In Beta… Eh?!?!?
Over the Christmas period, i spent a bit of time reading up on things that i had been putting off for a while. One of those things was to find out what the heck the World Is In Beta is all about. It...
View Article29 Global Risks via the World Economic Forum
To put it mildly it has been an uneasy start to 2016. Global stock markets are plummeting, there are geopolitical tensions in Eastern Europe and on the Korean peninsula, a refugee crisis on the...
View ArticleThe 21 Most Popular Tweets from the WEF in Davos 2016
The annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos 2016 has instigated plenty of debate and discussion around many of the current and anticipated global trends. The main topic at Davos was the Fourth...
View ArticleThe Top Payments News Stories in January, 2016
Payments news in January 2016 pretty much continues where we left off in 2015. And in case you’re not sure where we left off, we can summarise it in 1 word – fintech. The buzz is all about technology...
View ArticleThe Top Payments News Stories in February, 2016
The payments news stories in February 2016 were all about mobile payments and blockchain. From a mobile payments perspective contactless payments data for 2015 became available in the UK and grew...
View Article10 Most Popular Payments Tweets from February, 2016
Having summarised The Top Payments News Stories in February, 2016 i noticed that some stories were hugely popular on twitter. Some payments news stories received a huge number of likes and retweets,...
View ArticleThe Top Payments News Stories in March, 2016
The payments news stories in March 2016 were all about fintech! All of the banks seemed to get into an accelerator or innovation lab somewhere or other. And while fintech investment in 2015 reached an...
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11 Insights From the JP Morgan Annual Letter by Jamie Dimon
There has been quite a bit of coverage of the JP Morgan CEO (Jamie Dimon) Letter to Shareholders in the press this last week. The exchanges between Jamie Dimon and Bernie Sanders have received quite a...
View Article7 Step Guide to Covering Up SWIFT Payment Fraud
In the post SWIFT, Hackers, Casinos and a Billion Dollar Bank Job i gave an overview of what happened and some of the lessons learnt from the Bangladesh Bank heist in February 2016. Interestingly BAE...
View ArticleThe Top Payments News Stories in April, 2016
Payments news stories in April 2016 were dominated by the usual themes – fintech, mobile payments and blockchain technology. And of course, cyber-security continued to concern all players, particularly...
View ArticleMy Notes from the SWIFT Business Forum in London
Along with 1300 people last week, i visited the SWIFT Business Forum in London – it was a great day with a number of well informed panel discussions and insights into the hot topics dominating the...
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