Tag: Digital Payments

Digital Wallets and Security – Payments Landscape
If sensitive data is left unprotected, it can result in severe consequences for the service provider’s business, including financial fraud, violations of legal regulations, penalties from the regulators, loss of consumer trust, and identity theft etc. By implementing security measures at the hardware level, a payment processing application can become more resilient to attacks. This effectively secures against malicious attempts prior to reaching the actual application layer.

Artificial Intelligence for Digital Payments Security
The best to protect data from stealing by hackers; may be by not converting and putting the data in system, In the old days people says keep smiling it does not cost you anything hang on this is not true any more.

Privacy, Innovations and Security in Digital Payments
Against escalating security threats on mobile payments, empowerment of merchants, acquirers, and service providers with new commerce opportunities and experiences in store and protection should

Digital Payments – Security vs Speed
Abstract – In Digital payments world million dollar question comes in at every stage what is more important security or speed (Performance & Ease). Financial system security design principles can be organized into logical groups, for example, least privilege is a principle and appears

Digitised Bank Payments – Their Struggle Saga with Friend FinTech
MNO’s speed to achieve their goal to standardise, automate, digitise, remove boundaries by brining cross order financial/remittances service in form of payments, cash, airtime, paperless and online. At the same time banks are still in their canteens with their coffee mugs without any sign of worry but in reality all African banks face tough challenges from MNO’s & Fintech players.

FinTech – A True Fairytale
Almost all players who entered into payments in arena of FinTech domain are actually coming out of this game park with zero or no knowledge. This is giving too much innovation to put idea on table but takes longer to make it reality. Technical companies entering financial domain and making it interesting by doing technical integration, or “fintegration”, of fintech services, the latter interfacing directly to bank customers for

Year 2016 : What is needed, Banking or Banks?
“Banking is needed not the banks, Fintech is killing banks, not the banking”. Banks need to accept change, become Fintech partners and it’s time to come out of their 100-year sleeping mind/blindfolded approach to customer’s banking need otherwise banking will only survive but not banks any more. Since the mobile payment era has just started, it is still too early to answer this point and nominate the winner, we will need to wait and see how it will go but I think we will somehow end in a stalemate, which is not at all pleasing for one type of role.

Mobile Money Basics : Part-2
Mobile Money, Mobile Payments, Mobile Banking and Mobile Commerce can be termed Mobile Financial Services. The magic word known as “Pay” has gone viral in today’s time and every day we have 1 or 2 new startup’s entering the payment industry, specifically into the Mobile Payment domain. Mobile phones can be used to deliver a range of banking services. Not from Banks, I am separating banking and banks. Banking services dont need banks any more. Transaction data can be used to develop customers’ credit histories to offer other top-up services.

Strong Payment System Makes Powerful Economic Growth
Economic Growth – Any country with a solid, stable and raising economy always has a very strong payment system. The impact of electronic payments i.e. […]