AMLD4.1, AMLD5 or 5AMLD?
Approximately 50% of new bank accounts are opened by customers that have recently arrived in the UK to work or ... [Continue reading]
Category Archives: Banking and Finance
Bitcoin and banks
My old friend Alistair Milne has just published a very interesting paper on Cryptocurrencies from an Austrian ... [Continue reading]
PSD2 SCA: Risk and Reward?
Account-based ticketing workshops
Central bank digital currency, again
I had a really enjoyable time chairing the “futures” panel in the closing plenary of Intergraf’s Security Printers 2016 in ... [Continue reading]
Mutable and immutable blockchains
Now we all know what the bitcoin blockchain is, don’t we? It’s just one particular version of the general class of blockchains, which share the characteristics that data is stored in blocks ... [Continue reading]
Me, Vanessa and crossing the streams
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published its report on the retail banking ... [Continue reading]
The social cost of identity
The police are apparently fed up with Walmart. They cut staff, introduced automated checkout and saw a big increase in shoplifting, which they pass on to the police.
“The ... [Continue reading]
Cardmaggeddon in China (and Canada)
I nipped round to Waitrose to get some milk the other day. As I closed the door behind me I realised that I’d left my wallet on my desk. But guess what - I didn’t care. Waitrose takes ... [Continue reading]
ODA is a good thing, and not only for transit operators (are you listening USA?)
