Bionym, Royal Bank of Canada and MasterCard are testing ECG-authenticated payments

Biometric identity verification mechanisms were prominent among the raft of new product announcements at the Money20/20 event in Las Vegas, which opened this week.

Why can’t the ECB bring itself to stress test banks for deflation? I was thinking about this question when I remembered an episode from the past.

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Being responsible for a large enterprise integration project brings with it an ominous set of challenges. If you’re project managing such an endeavour then you need to have a constant mind on how you can prove that your integration pieces are working. The problems are complex and you need to be asking yourself the following:

I wanted to share a recent project experience with you that further strengthened my belief that a picture paints a thousand words. It helped to identify the root cause of a show-stopping problem where other efforts to do so had failed. ().

The project landscape:

For many years I’ve been collecting securitization issuance data for the United States and Europe. And many years ago I was tracking securitization volumes in various other countries (Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea and various emerging market countries). I’m slowly getting all of this back on track for another project I’m working on and here are […]