Payments

In a no turn-up for the books there then announcement, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) released figures this week that show that the world is trading over $3 trillion a day in foreign exchange (FX) instruments in 2007. These are the results of the three-yearly survey the BIS performs with the Central Banks around…

In a no turn-up for the books there then announcement, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) released figures this week that show that the world is trading over $3 trillion a day in foreign exchange (FX) instruments in 2007. These are the results of the three-yearly survey the BIS performs with the Central Banks around…

So I finally sussed out a way to make my long-term vision of sticking chips inside people for payments a reality through a medium-term transition away from my short-term loathing for Chip & PIN.  This will be achieved as we strip things back to the basics. For example, look at any credit card today and…

So I finally sussed out a way to make my long-term vision of sticking chips inside people for payments a reality through a medium-term transition away from my short-term loathing for Chip & PIN.  This will be achieved as we strip things back to the basics. For example, look at any credit card today and…

The US Dollar rules the global markets, even whilst it is being bombarded during the credit crunch.  After all, nearly all countries across Latin America and the Middle East are tied to the dollar.   That is why the dollar is the reserve currency of the world.  The thing is though that China holds over $1…

What goes around comes around … Some things never change …  Same old, same old … Y’know you’re getting old when you are tired of hearing a debate about something fundamental but just continual. And so if men are from Mars and women are from Venus, then bankers are from Mercury and techies are from…

Hello.  Sorry for emailing you out of the blue, but my name is Ishamal Nicker, and my brother was killed in the Iraq war before he could move his money back to Lebanon.  He had $20,000,000 in a Switzerland bank account and has given me the codes but I can’t move the funds due to…

I spent a day in Barcelona last week … put your hands up for Barcelona, a lovely city. For those in the know they’ll get this and, for those who aren’t in the know, I’m speaking in a foreign language.  That’s the point though as, these days, a lot of stuff is a foreign language,…

I spent a day in Barcelona last week … put your hands up for Barcelona, a lovely city. For those in the know they’ll get this and, for those who aren’t in the know, I’m speaking in a foreign language.  That’s the point though as, these days, a lot of stuff is a foreign language,…

I spent a day in Barcelona last week … put your hands up for Barcelona, a lovely city. For those in the know they’ll get this and, for those who aren’t in the know, I’m speaking in a foreign language.  That’s the point though as, these days, a lot of stuff is a foreign language,…