Entries Categorized as 'payments'
by Kristin Moyer | January 20, 2012 | 2 Comments
Contributed by David Furlonger Today we conducted our Euro Crisis Webinar. 416 participants were surveyed about: Whether their enterprise had plans in place to deal with a worsened euro crisis Whether the euro crisis has impacted their IT budget Whether the euro crisis would influence investments in innovation Results of the polling revealed that 50% [...]
Category: CIO Customer Executive Decisions Uncategorized banking euro insurance operations payments securities social networking twitter Tags: banking, banking and investment services, Basel II, cio, cost containment, customer communication, customer service, customer trust, financial crisis, financial services, financial services restructuring, innovation, insurance, IT, market crisis, Operational risk, regulation, regulatory compliance, restructuring, risk management, scenario planning
by Kristin Moyer | January 10, 2012 | Comments Off
Contributed by David Furlonger [ Register Now For January 19th webinar: Euro Crisis Webinar ] An interesting article appeared on Reuters yesterday: Financial repression is here and may be helpful. It discusses and supports the potential for greater control over the financial markets by governments, including a continuation of the current schemes that print more money [...]
Category: CIO Customer Executive Decisions Uncategorized banking euro insurance operations payments securities social networking twitter Tags: banking, banking and investment services, Basel II, BCM DR, cio, cost containment, customer service, customer trust, financial crisis, financial services, financial services restructuring, innovation, insurance, IT, lending, market crisis, Operational risk, regulation, regulatory compliance, restructuring, risk management, scenario planning, sourcing
by Kristin Moyer | December 20, 2011 | Comments Off
Contributed by David Furlonger On the weekend, I read a rather alarming commentary by David Stockman European Banking System is on the Verge of Collapse. While this analysis clearly highlights the fragility of bank balance sheets, it doesn’t dig deeply into the graver issue facing the Eurozone policy makers and indeed the world – that [...]
Category: CIO Customer Executive Decisions banking euro insurance operations payments securities social networking twitter Tags: banking and investment services, Basel II, BCM DR, cio, cost containment, credit card, customer communication, customer service, customer trust, financial crisis, financial services, financial services restructuring, innovation, IT vendors, lending, market crisis, Mint, mobile banking, mobile payments, p2p lending, payments, paypal, regulatory compliance, restructuring, risk management, scenario planning, social media, social networking, twitter
by Kristin Moyer | December 13, 2011 | 1 Comment
Contributed by David Furlonger Commentators suggest over half of the companies on the 2009 Fortune 500 list began during a recession or bear market. Does this offer hope to a European market saddled with an on-going crisis and likely poor economic growth, if not recession, for several years to come? The new European Programme for [...]
Category: CIO Customer Executive Decisions banking euro insurance operations payments securities social networking Tags: banking and investment services, Basel II, BCM DR, cost containment, customer communication, customer service, financial crisis, financial services, financial services restructuring, innovation, insurance, IT, market crisis, Operational risk, risk management, scenario planning, social media
by Kristin Moyer | December 9, 2011 | Comments Off
Contributed by David Furlonger As announced on the BBC (and other media outlets) today: Euro crisis: Eurozone deal reached without UK it appears on the surface as if consensus has been reached between many Eurozone countries on addressing the crisis. All but the UK whose current leader believes such a deal is not in the [...]
Category: CIO Customer Executive Decisions banking euro insurance operations payments securities social networking Tags: banking and investment services, BCM DR, cost containment, customer communication, customer service, financial crisis, financial services, financial services restructuring, insurance, IT, IT vendors, lending, market crisis, Operational risk, regulation, restructuring, risk management, scenario planning
by Kristin Moyer | December 8, 2011 | 2 Comments
Contributed by David Furlonger Today’s WSJ suggested the Euro currency was finished: Banks Prep for Life After Euro This is another news article, in a continuing stream, that has become more intense over the last several months. The question is, are IT professionals, as opposed to economists and maybe politicians, prepared for a redenomination of [...]
Category: Customer Executive Decisions insurance operations payments social networking twitter Tags: banking, banking and investment services, Basel II, BCM DR, cio, euro, financial crisis, financial services, financial services restructuring, IT, market crisis, Operational risk, payments, regulation, risk management, scenario planning
by Kristin Moyer | January 6, 2011 | Comments Off
Stessa Cohen here. Mobile banking sounds simple, but it may still be confusing to bankers trying to sort out the hype from the opportunity. Is it like online banking but on a smaller screen? Is it a browser on a phone or a bunch of cryptic SMS codes that only unbanked consumers in India or Kenya [...]
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by Kristin Moyer | December 23, 2010 | Comments Off
The banking industry is undergoing radical transformation, and banks must adapt. Debit cards are the latest area of transformation needed for US issuers. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act included provisions regarding debit card interchange fee and routing. In response to this, the Federal Reserve Board unveiled a proposed rule that would [...]
Category: payments Tags: debit card, emv, interchange, regulation II
by Kristin Moyer | June 22, 2010 | Comments Off
Card management software is at the heart of the life cycle of a payment card, whether a financial institution is leveraging the card management software in-house or whether a processor is leveraging card management software to process transactions on behalf of a financial institution. A high level of card management software decision cycles is currently [...]
Category: payments Tags: base24, card management software, emv, regulatory change
by Kristin Moyer | May 6, 2010 | Comments Off
Stessa Cohen here. There’s an infamous episode of Sex and the City in which one of the main characters, Miranda, talks about a recent date. At the end of the evening, the man in question says to her, “I’ll call you.” The four friends, Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte discuss the merits of this “I’ll [...]
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