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THE US PAYMENTS MARKET – READY TO MOBILISE?
Although the USA remains the world’s largest single payments market and the world’s largest economy, it is a complex market...
THE CHALLENGES AND OBSERVATIONS FROM CENTRAL BANKS
During a lecture given in Germany in February 2018, Agustin Carstens, general manager of the Bank of International Settlements (BIS),...
ALL CHANGE FOR INTERCHANGE?
In recent years, interchange rates have come under increasing pressure from a variety of judicial reviews by the US Federal...
CYBERCRIME: TESTING TIMES
Cybercrime is booming. Banks and financial services companies are targets for criminals following the money and for nation-state actors and...
PREPAID REBOOTED
The benefits and functionality of prepaid are now being appreciated by all types of issuers and customers. Prepaid is increasingly...
CASH: DOWN, BUT NOT OUT
Cash is a capital-intensive business and nowhere more so than with ATMs. With cash usage generally declining and the fixed...
CRYPTO-COINING IT
Previously existing only on the fringes of finance or computer science, cryptocurrencies are now being discussed more widely. In the...
THE FUTURE OF BANKING
The doom-mongers have long been predicting an existential crisis in banking. Banks are being assailed on every side — by...