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Filed Under: Mobile Payments, Retail and Transit, Ticketing, Transit and Travel

Tickets via Mobile or TVM?—you decide

18th January 2018 by Dr John Elliott

I often travel from Edinburgh to Leeds by train -- pretty much every week in fact. I use the Trainline app (other apps are available) to search for train times. All sensible options I might care ... [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Banking and Finance, Crime & Fraud, Finance and Banking, Mobile Payments, Payment systems, Privacy and security

Who would have ex-Spectre-d this?

5th January 2018 by David Hearn

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At Consult Hyperion we’re always interested in the latest news in cyber security and in case you haven't heard, 2018 has started with the news that the most processors found inside current ... [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Banking and Finance, Crime & Fraud, Finance and Banking, Retail, Retail and Transit

Using Big Data to Identify Fraudulent Transactions

22nd November 2017 by Nick Norman

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With Thanksgiving upon us and the drive for mass consumption to continue through the Black Friday and Cyber Monday purchasing frenzy in the US, we regularly hear the comment ... [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Finance and Banking, Mobile money, Telecoms and Technology

PSD2, Curtains for Direct Carrier Billing?

17th November 2017 by Tim Richards

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The Second Payment Services Directive, aka PSD2, contains much that is admirable, some that is debatable and yet more that is downright mysterious. As we await the forthcoming final version of ... [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Payment Cards, Political, legal and regulatory, Public Sector and NGO, Public Sector and NGOs, Retail and Transit, Telecoms and Technology, Ticketing, Transit and Travel

Crossing continents for knowledge sharing

13th November 2017 by Dr John Elliott

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Chyp believes that collaboration and knowledge sharing across markets can help the advancement of the industry and this is particularly true in transport ticketing. For example, we have found ... [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Cash and cash replacement, Money, Payments, Retail and Transit, Ticketing, Transit and Travel

Paying for Transit

16th October 2017 by Dr John Elliott

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I recently presented at the Transport Card Forum 2017 in Birmingham. The subject I was asked to speak about was "How will ... [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Banking and Finance, Finance and Banking, Identification and Authentication, Identity, Political, legal and regulatory, Public Sector and NGO, Public Sector and NGOs

AMLD4.1, AMLD5 or 5AMLD?

5th July 2017 by Steve Pannifer

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I recently came across a statistic that surprised me.

Approximately 50% of new bank accounts are opened by customers that have recently arrived in the UK to work or ... [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Finance and Banking, Payments

Sorting out sorting

30th June 2017 by Dave Birch

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Another waste of money is around the corner for the UK banking sector.

"Almost 1 million UK bank customers will be forced to have to use new six-digit sort codes… The ... [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Cash and cash replacement, Money, Retail and Transit, Ticketing, Transit and Travel

Dominating the city centres in the next five years

3rd April 2017 by Dr John Elliott

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On 25 January 2017, I moderated a panel discussion at Transport Ticketing Global 2017 entitled "which public transport technology solution will be dominating city centres in the next five ... [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Retail and Transit, Shared Ledger

The blockchain’s salad days

21st March 2017 by Dave Birch

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I’m not sure if you’re supposed to have a favourite supply chain fraud or not but I do, and it is the famous case of the vegetable oil that almost bankrupted American Express (and went some ... [Continue reading]

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