I am live blogging Finovate2009 from NYC. MORNING SESSION #1 BrightScope - Ryan Alfred, President Mission: Help Americans retire in dignity Website provides additional information on existing employer 401k plans Provides ratings and does comparisons on plan...
I am attending Finovate 2009 in NYC today - a whirlwind of financial innovation. Each company has seven minutes to demo their latest and greatest technology; no PowerPoint allowed! I'll do my best to keep up and give you real-time updates on the presentations....
I'm in Baltimore attending the NACHA Council mega-meeting. This morning Aneesh Chopra, the Federal Government's CTO (officially, director of technology for the President's Office of Science and Technology) was the Keynote Speaker. He took a few minutes to warm up, but...
By Allen Weinberg Ashok Misra has an interesting, and certainly provocative, article in the current Secure Payments Magazine. If you don’t know Ashok, he is Sr. Manager Payments & Security at RealNetworks, Inc in Seattle, chairman of the European CNP Payment...
Over at TechCrunch, Sarah Lacy laments the that too few of the start-ups on stage at this week's TechCrunch50 were chasing audacious, world-changing ideas: I did interviews with most of the TechCrunch50 experts backstage and there was a common gripe about the...
I attended yesterday's PayPal Platform Preview in San Jose and wanted to share some thoughts on the platform, Adaptive Payments, and the partner applications that were demonstrated. First, a bit of context. PayPal has long offered a suite of callable APIs for payments...
CFO.com summarizes the most recent Forrester "TechRadar" report on financial software. Not surprisingly, economic woes are driving businesses' need for accounts receivable and collections software to help companies monitor their customers payment behavior. Budgeting...
Every now and then, I get brought in to trouble shoot a payments initiative gone awry. For the last week I was hunkered down in triage mode with a client team suffering from a derailed project. They were exhausted, drowning in user complaints, struggling to fix bugs,...
[via WIRED magazine] 10 Best Uses for RFID tags: 6// Clubbers At Barcelona's Baja Beach Club, VIPs are injected with RFIDs linked to debit accounts, making wallets passé.
Sigurd Rinde believes that double entry accounting is a root cause of the current economic calamity. He's got a point. Check this out: [except - read the whole post here] Is there a root cause? And if so, why is it not discussed? So why is it not discussed?...
