Category: money transfer
“New” ACH System in US
The current ACH system will never go away (related blog). There were $33.91 TRILLION moved over the network in 2011, compared to total debit and credit volume of around $4.5 Trillion. However, there are several “improvements” to ACH where all could benefit, primarily speed and fraud management.
ACH Origination Risk
US banks are getting out of the business of supporting MSBs as the regulatory burdens increase. The most recent (and significant) are CFPB’s final section 1073 rules.
Future of Retail Banking: Prepaid?
Today’s pre-paid dynamics may be the tipping point by which 3 party networks begin to overtake V/MA in growth. A trend that will accelerate when other business models require “control”. This next phase will be centered around merchant/consumer transaction data, which will begin to unlock the advertising revenue pool, which is almost 4 times larger than that of payments.
Payments and core banking will become a “dumb pipe” business unless Banks create value and assume a larger orchestration role. POS Payments are the central feature of a transaction account, if banks loose this relationship they will be in a poor position to orchestrate. 4 party networks are very, very hard to change.
Social Payments: Paying the Blogosphere
This could be the death knell for established news organizations. Having just renewed my subscription to the online Wall Street Journal last week, I was struck at how much of my news comes from informal social networks. I received a call today from an interesting team operating in this space… quite frankly a fabulous payment idea: Paying the blogosphere.
PayPal Shut Down in India
The RBI published Annex I circular on November 27, 2009 (RBI/2009-01/ 236). India’s regulators are some of the toughest on the planet. They expect that organizations read their guidelines.. The country manager should have some scars on his back after this one.