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: Markets
Sorting out sorting
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]
Dominating the city centres in the next five years
The blockchain’s salad days
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]
PSD2 SCA: Overloading Banks?
Why can’t digital identity be easy, like payments?
Finger pay redux
A few people forwarded a link from Time Out to me last week, calling attention to a new payment mechanism using a new biometric identification technology to effect retail payments in a new ... [Continue reading]
PSD2 SCA: Risk and Reward?
Retailers and cashlessness (In more ways than one)
British Airways have instituted a new policy of annoying customers like me by [Continue reading]
The gold standard for voting
Electoral fraud isn’t a huge problem in the United Kingdom but it does happen, and it looks as if it’s been happening with increasing frequency in certain areas. So the government has decided ... [Continue reading]