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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.
Learn the 3 strategies to future-proofing your enterprise against security threats from inside or outside your organization.
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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How important an issue is financial supply chain management to your bank?
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Very important
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62%
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Fairly important
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17%
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10%
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Payments Blog Entires
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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)...
- 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....
- A recent study by Phoenix Payments Research confirms what the industry has begun to realize—-that debit cards engender more loyalty among bank customers versus credit cards....
- By Maria Bruno-Britz, Bank Systems & Technology Is it just me or are wallets shrinking? I mean literally, not figuratively. I don’t know what the situation is with men’s wallets, but I went on a foray recently to purchase a...
- Deal with Postilion enables CNB to issue and process prepaid cards for other banks, retailers. By Maria Bruno-Britz, Bank Systems & TTechnology...
- By Maria Bruno-Britz, Bank Systems & Technology After getting hammered by consumers and legislators alike over last year’s data breaches and the apparent cavalier attitude some merchants took toward securing card data, merchants are starting to get the hint. According...
- It's not often that I open up my email in-box and my first thought is, "Wow" –- but that was my reaction this morning when I saw the announcement that Fiserv is buying CheckFree in an all-cash transaction valued at...
- ABN AMRO’s Boden says that corporate awareness of SEPA on the rise and the implications are broader than expected....
- By Maria Bruno-Britz, Bank Systems & Technology I knew it wouldn’t take long. A few weeks ago, I posted about an initiative by New York City and Visa to install credit card readers with contactless capabilities in all NYC cabs....
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