Shaju Nair Payments SME, Product Manager at Temenos
If you haven't yet stopped to notice that the payment industry is at the onset of a remarkable change - then this is just about time. If the hundreds of on-going experimental projects in various central and commercial banks are going to finish well - the face of the industry will not be the same as how we know it today. The very concept of money a...
18 January 2024 /retail /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services
It brings me grief when I hear people refer to CBDC as being just another form of digital money or just another mobile application for making payments when in reality there is a world of difference with CBDC being sovereign money (as is notes and coins) controlled and guaranteed by central bank and backed by assets, once upon a time gold itself, ...
15 January 2023 /payments /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services
The world today is awash with money. The global broad money supply is reaching $ 90 Trillion, the United States alone contributing about $ 30 Trillion. Roughly 30% of US money supply was added in the last 2 years - with rest of nations also been adding similar quantities in recent past in their natural objective to be competitive in international...
24 January 2022 /payments /wholesale Trends in Financial Services
Just about a decade ago, banks worried about fintechs taking away 'some' of their businesses. Some years ago, banks worried about cryptocurrencies taking away 'more' of their businesses. Today banks need to worry if central banks would take away 'most' of their businesses. Welcome to CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currencies) - the dragon Dracarys of ...
13 June 2021 /payments /crypto Innovation in Financial Services
I was 30 miles away from Bangalore City, in a quite village, ordering for red-bricks from a nearby brick factory over phone. I was extremely pleased to hear the manger say that he will accept account transfer, and passed on his bank code and account number. An hour later the truck arrived and as the unloading of bricks commenced, I got on to my pho...
24 September 2017 /payments Online Banking
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