Cross-Border eCommerce: Payments' Next Frontier

“As global trade grows, all stakeholders in online industries are facing new challenges, for instance, how to make cross-border eCommerce profitable. Global eCommerce has been growing, on average, 19 percent each year and in China, eCommerce sales grew 130 percent in 2011. According to JPMorgan Chase, by 2015, eCommerce will have grown to $1.4 trillion. In developing, emerging and maturing markets, mobile eCommerce is providing consumers with new payment methods to purchase goods and services online.” <<READ MORE>>

What we are reading … 22nd January 2013

Offshoring has fuelled IT skills crisis, say UK firms http://dld.bz/ca2U7

'Red October' spies on diplomats, governments worldwide http://dld.bz/camCU

Delivering mobile payments to every bank account in the UK http://dld.bz/camCT

U.S. power plants combat USB malware infections http://www.zdnet.com/u-s-power-plants-combat-usb-malware-infections-7000009871/

MasterCard to Issue Prepaid and Debit Cards in Five African Markets http://twb.io/VYhuvc

Mobile Banking: Bigger Than I Thought… http://bostinno.com/channels/mobile-banking-bigger-than-i-thought/

Latest Feature in Mobile Banking: Smartphone Cameras

Banking is top of mind for smart device owners who are increasingly using mobile to accomplish the daily to-do list. Among a list of tasks performance marketing company Performics provided US smartphone and tablet users in October, the No. 1 activity people said they expected to be able to do on their mobile device was banking.

Banks are responding to this expectation by moving their mobile offerings beyond basic features. National banks have begun offering mobile remote check deposit, which allows customers to deposit checks using their smartphone cameras. Wells Fargo, for instance, has extended its mobile remote deposit app to the entirety of the US. <<READ MORE>>

What we are reading … 21st January 2013

Mobile Banking Deposits Gain With Big-Bank Adoption http://dld.bz/bZZpg

TD Tells Customers To 'Bank Human' With Lollipops And Pens http://bit.ly/13Goak1

Will Regulators Dictate Privacy? BankInfoSecurity http://dld.bz/bZZpa

PayPal: The Commerce Giant Shatters Q4 Predictions http://dld.bz/bZZnZ

Risk-wary clients refuse to rush into mobile-banking http://dld.bz/bZZnY

Diversified Channels in Rural Banking Worldwide http://dld.bz/bZZnW

BankersLab Debuts a Mobile App to Train Retail Bankers http://dld.bz/bZZnG

Green Dot's New Mobile Checking Account Lets You Choose the Monthly Fee http://dld.bz/bZZnD

Rwanda: Sleepless nights for Banks as MobileMoney gain traction http://shar.es/4ReGF

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Germany's HFT licensing plans draw market criticism

“High-frequency traders and exchange operators have spoken out against German government plans to make HFT practitioners obtain prior authorisation to operate.

Although the EC is currently in the process of tightening rules on computer algorithmic trading as part of its MiFID overhaul, the German government has taken its own, tougher, steps.” <<READ MORE>>

Balance Forecasts Will Come to Digital Banking

“What would it take to make personal financial management apps more popular?

Cash flow predictions and deeper spending insights, say many observers in this market, from entrepreneurs to analysts to bankers.” 

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