3 Strategies for Creating the Secured Global Enterprise
Banks are under tremendous pressure to find the right balance between securing their enterprise and being optimized for growth. All executives know the right step can place you ahead of the pack; the wrong step can cost millions.

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Protect Your Financial Supply Chain: Protect Your Enterprise
Download The Aberdeen Group's intriguing webcast on the hot topic facing corporates today: Supply Chain Finance (SCF) featuring analysts Beth Enslow and Viktoriya Sadlovska Download The Aberdeen Group's intriguing webcast on the hot topic facing corporates today: Supply Chain Finance (SCF) featuring analysts Beth Enslow and Viktoriya Sadlovska



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    14%
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    8%
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Payments Blog Entires

  • Next Steps for Your Card Operations After an MPLS Migration

    By Edgar Aguilar, MasterCard Global Technology and Operations Today, as consumer technology has evolved, people face a dizzying array of choices. At the same time, some technology product options have narrowed, mostly to consumers’ delight. For instance, many broadband providers...

  • Consumers Not Happy with Card Companies, But Will Legislation Help?

    U.S. consumers are less satisfied with their credit cards than they were a year ago. The biggest gripes, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2009 Credit Card Satisfaction Study—fees and rates....

  • Addressing the Rising Cost of Check Fraud

    Despite of the steady decline in the general number of checks written annually, organizations still make 74 percent of their payments by check, according to some estimates. It is not news that check fraud is a prevailing form of fraud....

  • Banks Need to Bring Web 2.0 to Treasury Services

    It looks like things in the treasury management space are poised to become a bit more exciting. During a presentation on Web 2.0 in the payments space at NACHA Payments 2009 called “Payments 2.0? - What Payments Professionals Need to...

  • Knowledge is Power in the Bank/Corporate Relationship

    By Suzanne Hurt, Bottomline Technologies With increasing regularity, corporate treasurers are looking to their banking partners as catalysts for driving greater strategic value inside their organizations. In order to serve in this role, banks must transform how they interact with...

  • FROM RDS: Could There Be Hidden Opportunity In Debit Cards Amidst Crisis?

    Consumers like electronic payments. So was the conclusion of the 2008 Study on Consumer Payment Preferences conducted by BAI Research in conjunction with Hitachi Consulting. Although there weren't too many surprising revelations, I was inclined to believe there is more...

  • When Prepaid Cards Hold Your Money Hostage

    This weekend, since our contract with Verizon expired, we switched our cell phone plan to AT&T (because my husband made me get an iPhone). Also on the plan are two other family members who just wanted simple phones (I swear,...

  • Paying Taxes by Credit Card Simply Convenient to Some

    A trend among consumers in recent years has been to pay their taxes with a credit card. I know this is old news in a way, but whenever I see something about topic, I can't help but shake my head...

  • New Bank of America Visa Card to Help the Planet, Takes New Twist On Rewards

    It looks like credit card issuing banks are starting to take a leadership position when it comes to the whole "green" craze in which we now find ourselves. Sure, we've heard news about banks building green data centers and others...

  • Caution Is the Key to the Chinese Card Market

    Everyone in banking seems to want a piece of China. And why wouldn't they? The Asian nation isn't only an economic powerhouse, but contains a quarter of the world's population. Just think of the customer acquisition opportunities. However, if you're...

  • RDS SPECIAL: The Checking Account will Evolve and Branding will Make All the Difference

    OK, I think we all know the writing is on the wall for checks. But just for the heck of it, I decided to attend a session at Retail Delivery called Why Is It Still Called a Checking Account? Dove...

  • HSBC Decoupled Debit Program Expands with Pathmark

    Here’s a bit of news that ties in very nicely with an article I wrote for the upcoming November issue. HSBC has launched a decoupled debit card program where it issues debits cards for merchants so that consumers can earn...

  • Canada's Expanded PIN/Chip Debit Rollout Might Mean Trouble for U.S.

    Canada's official full-scale trial of chip and PIN debit transactions begins this month in Ontario. According to Canadian debit card payments association Interac, the new cards will provide consumers with a safer alternative to the old magnetic stripe card, which...

  • E-Banking Message More Universal Than One Would Think

    Well, it looks like toy maker Hasbro got the memo about moving to electronic payments. The company now offers an electronic banking version of the classic board game Monopoly. I saw a commercial for the souped up game only recently...

  • SIBOS SPECIAL: Standards and Information Key Drivers of Fed Payments Initiatives

    By Maria Bruno-Britz, Bank Systems & Technology Standards and information have increasingly become the focus of the commercial payments world. Corporates desire a more uniform way of interacting with their banks. Further, as commercial payments become more commoditized, banks need...

  • SIBOS SPECIAL: Bank of America's Kenneth Lewis Opens Sibos

    Kenneth Lewis, chairman and CEO of Bank of America, spoke of the role of confidence in financial services, especially in the face of volatile markets during the opening plenary at this year's Sibos conference....

  • SIBOS SPECIAL: The Regional Nature of Global Banking

    By Maria Bruno-Britz, Bank Systems & Technology There's always talk in the payments world about the need for greater harmonization and standardization in the ways that payments are processed. That's no less true at this year's Sibos. However, in spite...

  • Rent Payments as a Missing Link In Electronic Payments

    Funny coincidence. I was sitting at my desk speaking with a co-worker who was upset that her rent check didn’t yet clear. She thought she had given herself enough time but sure enough, the check is just sitting somewhere and...

  • SEPA’s Corporate Roadblock

    By Maria Bruno-Britz, Bank Systems & Technology As if they didn’t have enough on their plate in Europe, it turns out that certain entities will not be ready to launch payments instruments related to the single euro payments area (SEPA)...

  • When David And Goliath Come To Terms, One Wonders What The Sub-Goliaths Were Doing

    First, how about if I define the players: David is ACI Worldwide at $348 million per year in revenue. Goliath is IBM at $91 billion per year. The sub-Goliaths are CheckFree at $973 million and Metavante at $1.5 billion....

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