Payments Monitor
39 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 8 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDaily podcast (less than 5 minutes) on the world of banking, payments, fintech, economy and money.
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Episodes
Episode 39: 5th of January 2016
January 05, 2016 15:41 - 3 minutes - 3.15 MBDaily #Podcast: Mike Tyson launches a Bitcoin wallet with Bitcoin Direct, China’s stock market still swinging after yesterday’s crisis, Kenyan shilling shows signs of remaining stable after dollar influxes by NGOs. Orange Bank, Paypal + Aramex and more.
Episode 38: 4th January 2016
January 04, 2016 13:18 - 4 minutes - 3.95 MBA very brief overview of last year and what can we expect this year in the world of banking, payments and fintech.
Episode 37: 14th December 2015
December 14, 2015 14:13 - 5 minutes - 5.17 MBDaily #Podcast: Will oil breach the $30 floor? The Federal Reserve might be planning to raise interest rates for the first time since the Great Depression - the .bank domain is finally available - how decentralized ledger and the world of instant payments is changing the landscape for payments & banking.
Episode 36: 9th December 2015
December 09, 2015 14:33 - 6 minutes - 6.12 MBDaily #Podcast: Has the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto been revealed? TransferWise gets two money transmitter licenses in the US, Money Laundering - How big of a problem it is in the US, Turkey & Iran - comparing # of POS deployed. Sweden's war on Cash and Microsoft embraces Ripple on Blockchain-as-a-Service.
Episode 35: 7th December 2015
December 07, 2015 12:56 - 3 minutes - 3.06 MBDaily #Podcast: Xoom is coming to Bangladesh while M-Pesa will soon begin services in Ghana. Abn Amro Bank to allow signing up with a Selfie, oil prices edging closer to 2015 low, Argentina president aims to dismantle currency controls and some insights from the Mobile Money global conference in Istanbul.
Episode 34: 27th November 2015
November 27, 2015 13:41 - 3 minutes - 3.31 MBDaily #Podcast: BBVA Bancomer Mexico and Gemalto announce first rollout of Dynamic Code Verification Solution, Bank of England challenges students to create a blockchain solution, Wechat launches mobile wallet in South Africa, China’s Shanghai Composite Index sinks 5.5 percent, Will Britain spend over 1 Billion Pounds on Black Friday?
Episode 33: 26th November 2015
November 26, 2015 14:26 - 3 minutes - 3.2 MBToday’s #Podcast: Barclays gets fined again. Goldman Sachs charges staffer, Hilton Hotel has a data breach, VISA experiments with blockchain and Remittances, SWIFT says Virtual Currencies not ready for EU Regulations, $60 Million is the asking price for the large uncut diamond and Thanksgiving in US today with shopping season kick-off tomorrow.
Episode 32: 24th November 2015
November 24, 2015 14:45 - 4 minutes - 3.68 MBDaily #Podcast: Distributed Ledger Technology could render the Central Banks useless (cites a BIS report), Spanish Bank BBVA now owns nearly 30% of UK Challenger Bank: Atom, Samsung Pay adds more issuers, Apply Pay plans to launch in China and Jeff Bezos rockets lands back. Turkey's action with the downing of Russian jet, causes markets to fall, and oil to move up slightly, and in closing thoughts, the Saudi stubbornness on oil production.
Episode 31: 23 November 2015
November 23, 2015 13:58 - 5 minutes - 4.93 MBDaily #Podcast: Diebold agrees to $1.8 Billion takeover of Wincor-Nixdorf, China could be heading for a Yuan devaluation, Coinbase issues Bitcoin Debit Card, Brazil might regulate Bitcoin, Jack Ma wants a piece of SCMP, Argentina's fever or optimism is high, Discover Around The Coin and Where is Bitcoin going?
Episode 30: 20th November 2015
November 20, 2015 13:07 - 3 minutes - 3.52 MBDaily #Podcast: China cracks down on $64 Billion “underground bank”, top 20 non-bank money transfer providers based in the UK now account for over £40 billion of foreign exchange per year, Martha Stewart moves to Amazon’s Handmade platform, Dunkin’ Donuts testing a mobile ordering app, world’s 2nd largest uncut diamond discovered in Botswana, MIT now offers a degree in Fintech, Samsung Pay coming to budget phones & Square makes its debut.
Episode 29: 19th November 2015.
November 19, 2015 14:56 - 3 minutes - 3.59 MBDaily #Podcast: Barclay's gets fined US$ 150 Million by NY's DFS. Nigeria's central bank cuts back on US Dollar supplies, EU seeking a crackdown on Bitcoin. Most US shoppers will use Amazon.com this holiday season, and UK Government's report cites Bitcoin "pose lowest money laundering risk"
Episode 28: 18th November 2015
November 18, 2015 14:44 - 4 minutes - 3.84 MBDaily #Podcast: Barclays facing another fine, Western Union and Wechat to offer cross border payments service, Silicon Valley Bank survey shows 43% think red tape is main hurdle to growth in fintech growth, Blockchain startup Align Commerce raises $12.5 million, Viber might be jumping into the payments game and Groupon continues its exit from Nordic countries.
Episode 27: 17th November 2015
November 17, 2015 12:46 - 4 minutes - 4.11 MBDaily #Podcast: Webmoney gets an e-money license, Bank of Canada concerned over Bitcoin, Baidu and Citic Bank forming a bank, FCA wants firms to use cloud services, Bitcoin price on the rise again and IMF approves China’s Renminbi as a reserve currency.
Episode 26: 13th November 2015
November 13, 2015 15:17 - 4 minutes - 3.79 MBDaily #Podcast: Rakuten’s $100 M Fintech Fund, Blackstone invests in NCR, China shopping in the West, Visa Europe looking into blockchain for remittances, Overstock spinning away its blockchain division Medici and global oil inventories reach record level.
Episode 25: 12th November 2015
November 12, 2015 12:32 - 3 minutes - 3.09 MBDaily #Podcast: Today, Alibaba shatters records, Apple in talks with US banks for P2P mobile money transfers, China opening doors for foreign payment networks, Aite’s new report about P2P payments in the US, Microsoft is allowing access to Ethereum for Bitcoin and blockchain and Brian Roemmele’s new Pay Finder app.
Episode 24: 6th of November 2015
November 06, 2015 14:03 - 3 minutes - 3.5 MBDaily #Podcast: Today, Deutsche Bank troubles, Facebook’s revenue growth, Blackberry reboot, Square IPO, Amazon & Payoneer partnership and latest data showing a surge in the US jobs market in October.
Episode 23: 4th November 2015
November 04, 2015 13:34 - 3 minutes - 2.98 MBDaily #Podcast: Today, 40% of China’s e-commerce products are fake, Oberthur postpones IPO, today’s Bitcoin price highest this year, VISA Checkout hits 7 million users, the missing billions of Malaysia’s 1MDB and thoughts on Bernard Lunn’s Daily Fintech blog.
Episode 22: 3rd November 2015
November 03, 2015 14:24 - 3 minutes - 3.22 MBDaily Podcast: Today, surging price of Bitcoin, Standard Chartered layoffs, Germany’s alternative to Paypal, Chasepay, cutting off credit rating for 8 largest banks, Candy Crush acquired by Activision and Amazon’s first physical store.
Episode 21: 2nd November 2015
November 02, 2015 14:15 - 3 minutes - 3.2 MBDaily Podcast: Today, VISA buying VISA Europe, FBI blowback on Alert, Turkey’s elections & the Lira, China’s first airplane, HSBC results, Facebook “Local Market” Bitcoin’s new price high & Mr. Monopoly.
Episode 20: 30th October 2015
October 30, 2015 14:38 - 3 minutes - 3.04 MBDaily Podcast: Today, Chinese Yuan biggest rise since 2005, Bitcoin hits a new high for 2015, Amazon’s “Pay with Amazon”, UBS says London/Hong-Kong property bubble cometh, Legal Marijuana and access to banking in the US, Apple opens its flagship stores in the Middle-East.
Episode 19: 29th October 2015
October 29, 2015 13:42 - 3 minutes - 3.25 MBGood morning, welcome to Payments Monitor, my name is Faisal Khan, today is the 29th of October 2015, some stories for today are: TOP STORIES The new bitcoin incubator Digital Currency Group (DCG) has managed to attract many big name investors and this growing list now includes Mastercard. Mastercard, who had previously stated that digital currencies are more a threat than an advantage, seems be adopting a change in its strategy with this latest investment. In Germany, a new law is being p...
Episode 18: 28th October 2015
October 28, 2015 14:39 - 3 minutes - 3.29 MBGood morning, welcome to Payments Monitor, my name is Faisal Khan, today is the 28th of October 2015, some stories for today are: TOP STORIES With the number of increasing innovative payment methods like Apple Pay and Samsung Pay, it should come as no surprise that Juniper Research’s new study predicts a huge increase in biometrically authenticated transactions. Biometric payments are cited to go up to nearly 5bn by 2019, up from less than 130 million this year. Speaking of Apple Pay, t...
Episode 17: 27th of October 2015.
October 27, 2015 13:37 - 3 minutes - 2.98 MBGood morning, welcome to Payments Monitor, my name is Faisal Khan, today is the 27th of October 2015, some stories for today are: TOP STORIES JPMorgan Chase announced that its Chase Pay product (a challenger to Apple Pay) has signed up with the retailer consortium MCX. The Chase Pay wallet is all set to go into battle with the likes of Apple Pay, Google, Samsung and PayPal. MasterCard is wanting to make everything a payment device. MasterCard believes that the IoT (Internet of Things) will...
Episode 16: 26th October 2015
October 26, 2015 14:13 - 3 minutes - 3.54 MBGood morning, welcome to Payments Monitor, my name is Faisal Khan, today is the 26th of October 2015, some stories for today are: TOP STORIES Trouble is brewing for Deutsche Bank as the US Justice Department and the New York Department of Financial Services are expanding their probe of money laundering at the German Bank’s Moscow unit to what now may seem like potential breach of Western sanctions against Russia after its 2014 annexation of Crimea. The US Dollar trades being investigated am...
Episode 15: 22nd October 2015
October 22, 2015 13:30 - 3 minutes - 3.27 MBGood morning, welcome to Payments Monitor, my name is Faisal Khan, today is the 22nd of October 2015, some trending stories for today are: TOP STORIES The Dutch bank ABN-Amro is setting up a 10 Million Euro fintech fund. Not wanting to be left behind in the recent wave of banks like BBVA, Santander and Barclays who are pouring money in fintech, ABN-Amro’s Digital Impact Fund (as it is called) will invest in companies that have already launched a product or a service and are in their growth ...
Episode 14 - 21st October 2015
October 21, 2015 13:32 - 3 minutes - 3.38 MBGood morning, welcome to Payments Monitor, my name is Faisal Khan, today is the 21st of October 2015, some trending stories today are: TOP STORIES Sweden is well on its way to become the first country that would be completely cashless. With greater acceptance of electronic payments, especially P2P payments, cash usage is fast diminishing. Sweden is one of the few countries where consumers use bank cards for even the smallest of transactions. Fintech gurus have been saying for years that ba...
Episode 13 - 20th October 2015
October 20, 2015 13:53 - 3 minutes - 3.04 MBGood morning, welcome to Payments Monitor, my name is Faisal Khan, today is the 20th of October 2015, some trending stories today are: TOP STORIES Smartcard and security technology company Oberthur announced it will be filing for an IPO on Euronet Paris exchange. The IPO value has not been announced, but it will be close to the previous value of Euro 2 Billion (which was taken from the value assigned to Oberthur when it was a target of a failed private equity acquisition). Apple CEO Tim C...
Episode 12 - 19th October 2015
October 19, 2015 15:44 - 3 minutes - 3.63 MBGood morning, welcome to Payments Monitor, my name is Faisal Khan, today is the 19th of October 2015, some trending stories today are: TOP STORIES The world of ATM might be seeing a merger. US ATM manufacturer Diebold is in takeover talk with Wincor Nixdorf in a deal that would put the German OEM at a value of US$ 2 Billion. It would be interesting to see if NCR will be pushed to make a counter offer. If the deal goes through, Diebold will get access to the lucrative European ATM market. F...
Episode 11 - 15th October 2015
October 15, 2015 14:36 - 2 minutes - 2.66 MBGood morning, welcome to Payments Monitor, my name is Faisal Khan, today is the 15th of October 2015, some trending stories today are: TOP STORIES Wearable payment technology has another player, watchmaker Swatch has decided to enter the market. Swatch has partnered with China Union Pay and Bank of Communications to allow consumers to pay with a simple flick of the wrist using NFC technology. The watch is called Bellamy, in reference to Edward Bellamy, the author of an 1888 novel that envi...
Episode 10 - 14th October 2015
October 14, 2015 14:08 - 2 minutes - 2.73 MBGood morning, welcome to Payments Monitor, my name is Faisal Khan, today is the 14th of October 2015, some trending stories today are: TOP STORIES Hyperledger, a Blockchain startup who’s co-founders are based out of China and the US, just got their first big break. At Innotribe in Singapore, Hyperledger won the $50,000 Innotribe startup prize. Hyperledger is a distributed ledger that allows banks and other financial institutions to clear and settle financial transactions in real-time. The h...
Episode 9 - 13th October 2015
October 13, 2015 14:16 - 2 minutes - 2.73 MBGood morning, welcome to Payments Monitor, my name is Faisal Khan, today is the 13th of October 2015, some trending stories today are: TOP STORIES Author, Speaker, Futurist and CEO of Moven, Brett King announced at Sibos today that Moven raised US$ 12 Million in a Series B financing round led by Route 66 Ventures, bringing the total capital raised to US$ 25 Million. What started out as a mobile based PFM / wallet, is now more of a cooperative mobile app, that has licensed deals with banks i...
Episode 8 - 12th October 2015
October 12, 2015 15:11 - 3 minutes - 3.18 MBGood morning, welcome to Payments Monitor, my name is Faisal Khan, today is the 12th of October 2015, happy thanksgiving to all those listening in from Canada, to the rest, its Monday! Anyhow, here is what is trending today: TOP STORIES Dell agrees to buy EMC for US$ 67 Billion – the largest tech deal ever. Dell announced a few hours ago its intention to buy the corporate giant for software, storage and security as part of Dell’s transformation from the consumer PC business to an IT solution...
Episode 7 - 9th October 2015
October 09, 2015 14:56 - 3 minutes - 3.29 MBGood morning, welcome to Payments Monitor, my name is Faisal Khan, today is the 9th of October 2015, and some top stories of interest in my feed are: TOP STORIES Starbucks will soon be accepting Apple Pay. This announcement was made by Jennifer Baily at the Code/Recode Mobile conference in California. Starbucks has already started trials of accepting payments via Apple Pay in some of it stores and expect a complete rollout by 2016. British Bank Standard Chartered’s CEO Bill Winters announce...
Episode 6 - 8th October 2015
October 08, 2015 14:55 - 3 minutes - 3.27 MBGood morning, welcome to Payments Monitor, my name is Faisal Khan, today is the 8th of October 2015, and some top stories of interest in my feed are: TOP STORIES Lets start with the bad news. If you’re a Deutsche Bank shareholder, you have everything to be worried about. The German bank just announced 6 Billion Euro loss for its 3rd quarter, and a new record. The 7 Billion Dollar loss sent shockwaves throughout the financial world, no one was expecting this. Germany’s been experiencing an e...
Episode 5 - 7th October 2015
October 07, 2015 16:22 - 5 minutes - 4.81 MBTOP STORIES China starts dumping US Treasury Debt. The International Monetary Fund (i.e. the IMF), has issued a warning of fresh shocks to the local financial stability. Ben Bernanke states “the Fed should have abandoned inflation targeting.” Starbuck’s hires a full-time CTO The US Marshals Service is preparing to auction the left over 44,341 Bitcoin from the Silk Road Former Citibank CEO Vikram Pandit has invested in TransferWise WorldBank has issued a warning that low oil prices would resu...
Episode 4 - 6th October 2015
October 06, 2015 14:56 - 3 minutes - 3.04 MBTOP STORIES Digital currency network Ripple Labs just received a new round of funding for US$4 Million from Santander InnoVentures. Mastercard is doing biometric trials for payments Google Alphabet invests in Symphony. China’s renminbi is now the 4th most used currency in the world OPINION Payments walls, registrations, OAuth and ChangeTip. DEVELOPING STORY European Union’s 15-Year data sharing pact with the US has now been termed invalid. DID YOU KNOW Apple Pay turns one year old to...
Episode 3 - 5th October 2015
October 05, 2015 14:34 - 3 minutes - 2.95 MBTOP STORIES US Reaches Trade Deal with 11 Pacific Nations Cybersecurity Awareness Month falls flat as Scottrade joins ranks of victims South Korean app firm makes Internet bank bid with Tencent and eBay HyperWallet launches global payout API for the digital market Twitter CEO becomes permanent. OPINION Bloomberg Markets Most Influential 50 People: SOCIAL MEDIA Two best examples of social media: KLM and XpressMoney CONFERENCES SIBOS - SINGAPORE - 12-15 OCTOBER MONEY2020 - LAS VEGAS - 25T...
Episode 2 - 2nd October 2015
October 02, 2015 13:20 - 3 minutes - 3.02 MB- Trump Hotels Data Breach - T-Mobile users data stolen by hackers - Alibab invests in Paytm (again!) - Transferwise app features as best app on the Apple App store - Payoneer's White Paper - Upworks' white paper "Freelancing in America 2015"
Episode 1 - 1st October 2015
October 01, 2015 00:00 - 4 minutes - 4.52 MBTOP STORIES 1. Adyen 2.3 Billion dollar valuation 2. US switches over to EMV 3. WorldPay trials facial recognition technology, also comments on Siri/M-Messenger, using biometrics in payments. 4. Twitter expands the buy button 5. Coinbase - Buy bitcoins instantly from 26 countries. 6. FirstData IPO OPINION Money.net - and how it is beating the Bloomberg Terminal. BLOG ARTICLE Building a Universal Ledger (to block chain or not to blockchain) - Ben Milne, CEO of Dwolla DID YOU KNOW The world...