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Change in Seasons for Small Business Credit September 18 2017 Blog Alenka Grealish
It has been summer time in the small business credit market. After a harsh winter triggered by the financial crisis and economic downturn, seeds…
Fixing a Broken Model September 12 2017 Blog Joan McGowan
There is much grumbling in the industry about a surfeit of rules and regulations. But the main challenge banks face is not the number of regulati…
UK Cheque Imaging: Learning from the US Experience September 12 2017 Blog Bob Meara
"A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avo…
Omnichannel Delivery: Time for Banks to Get Moving September 12 2017 Blog Bob Meara
Banking these days is awash in buzzwords. Daily, we are greeted by gloom and doom assertions about the peril that could befall poor banks that fa…
Open Banking APIs: Driving Developer Adoption August 29 2017 Blog Patricia Hines
Secure, publicly accessible application programming interfaces (APIs) have been around for more than ten years in the financial services sector.…
Why Investigative Case Management Is So Important For Banks August 14 2017 Blog Joan McGowan
Forget legacy detection systems integration. This has proven to be challenging, costly, frustrating for banks, staff and their customers, and a w…
Cross-Border Payments: The Old Guard vs. The Young Upstart August 11 2017 Blog Patricia Hines
The SWIFT network has long been the backbone for global financial messaging. The cooperative utility was founded in 1973 by a consortium of banks…
Making the Most of the Payments Platform August 02 2017 Blog Eiichiro Yanagawa
Historically, the payment market infrastructure was a significant limiting condition, dictating the level of service offerings. However, followin…
Reflections on Money2020Europe 2017 August 01 2017 Blog Gareth Lodge
A few days after EBADay in Dublin, I attended Money2020 Europe in Copenhagen. I went to the inaugural event last year, though much of my time was…
The Dunning-Kruger Effect in Banking July 24 2017 Blog Daniel Latimore
What can a somewhat obscure psychological term possibly have to do with banking? And what the heck is the Dunning-Kruger effect, anyway? Briefly…
EBADay 2017 July 13 2017 Blog Gareth Lodge
As many clients will know, there are two events I always attend in the corporate payments space – EBADay and Sibos. EBADay is a 2-day European fo…
Getting a Makeover at 50: ATMs Going Cardless July 07 2017 Blog Zilvinas Bareisis
June 27 saw the 50th anniversary of the ATM – a device that has genuinely transformed how consumers get cash and interact with their banks. Barcl…
The Value in Payments: Forces Driving Commercial Card Adoption June 19 2017 Blog Patricia Hines
Eighty years ago a group of major airlines implemented the first commercial cards. Since then, cards have evolved from addressing expenses for tr…
The Expanding Role of the Corporate Treasury June 05 2017 Blog Patricia Hines
The Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) recently published its 2017 AFP Strategic Role of Treasury Survey supported by Marsh & McLenna…
Takeaways from the Latest Research in Consumer Financial Decision Making May 23 2017 Blog Daniel Latimore
Once a year I take a break from industry conferences and vendor analyst days by going to the Boulder Summer Conference on Consumer Financial Dec…