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Banks accept Dubai assassins' stolen IDs
Quite a few countries around the world had passports of their citizens copied as part of the assassination of Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh . While the photos disemminated by the media were undoubtedly of the assassins, the rest of the details were of real citizens.
I'm expecting that again this year there will be a lot of talk about e-invoicing at EBAday in Vienna, particularly as the expert group and EPC are working to break down the remaining barriers to widespread adoption ( such as these ). But beyond just the level playing field for e-invoicing, I'm looking forward to hearing more about what's being done under the umbrella of "e-Sepa", moving beyond just the invoicing component to achieve full automation of the payment value chain. E-Sepa has been talked about for a number of years (for example this from the ECB's Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell in July 2006), and it's always nice to say of complex, costly and time consuming processes: "wouldn't it be great if all this could be automated?"
Innovation in wholesale payments, beyond e-invoicing
Massive ATM fraud in the US - who is to blame?
The UK daily newspapers and newswires are today picking up on an ongoing case in the US involving system breaches, thousands of stolen PIN numbers, card cloning and money laundering. We've been following this on The Wired Blog Network for a few weeks now - most recent post here.
At the start of the conference in Hong Kong this week, group leaders pitched to the assembled audience to join one of three workshops to develop new ideas about how cloud computing, crowd sourcing and mash-ups can be applied to solve problems and generate new business in the financial services industry. 40 people from 19 different organisations took part in workshops on Thursday morning presenting their concept and business model to a Buyers' Panel that comprised. Wrapping up the Innotribe side-conference, a panel of venture capitalists debated the state of VC investment in start-ups generally, and also provided advice to Swift on developing more entrepreneural capabilities internally.