by Gropay | Apr 5, 2016 | Payments
Authentication – Payer! Reveal Thyself EPC releases results of latest consultations for e-mandate today: what does this mean for authentication and your online business? Earlier today, 5 April 2016, the European Payments Council (EPC) announced the launch of the...
by Gropay | Sep 18, 2015 | Payments
Fantasy Sports – It’s All A Fantasy Fantasy Sports continue to gain popularity California recently introduced a bill to allow online sports betting. The motivation of this bill is believed to be the increasing popularity of fantasy sports. Although, the...
by Gropay | Sep 18, 2015 | Payments
Cash – Kicking The Habit There was an interesting article in The Economist recently about strikes on the London Underground (Tube). Such strikes are commonly believed to have a short term net cost to the economy. However the article quoted a study by Oxford and...
by Gropay | Sep 18, 2015 | Payments
Data Protection – To Russia With Love Data Protection Russia Russia’s new data protection law came into effect on the 1st of September 2015. It’s now required by law to store personal details of Russian citizens on servers physically located in Russia. Copies of...
by Gropay | Sep 14, 2015 | Payments
Are Tattoos ever OK at work? I was HR Director at a large organization when I suddenly completely got caught by a curb ball thrown by one of my main stakeholders. “What is our HR policy on tattoos?” I had to take a two second pause before responding with a gigantic...
by Gropay | Sep 4, 2015 | Payments
Wirecard with a market value of $ 5.2 billion made a $9 billion bid for Worldpay. Is this a serious bid? What will Wirecard do with Worldpay? Wirecard has extensive experience with M&A and also in acquiring companies larger than itself and making it a success; as...