The Currency Scene
Solving the Challenge of Growing ATM Costs: Managed Services or ATM Outsourcing?
- Written by: Yonas Marcos
- Category: ATM
Despite growth in online shopping and cashless technologies, consumers continue to love cash. According to the 2018 Diary of Payment Choice by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, cash accounts for approximately 34 percent of all payments across age groups, cementing ATMs as a vital touch point between financial institutions and their account holders – especially for younger consumers.
Blockchain in Japan – Understanding the Legal Framework
- Written by: Aikon
- Category: Digital Currency
As with all innovation, blockchain technology can only develop so far before it faces legal hurdles making it necessary to create an acceptable legal framework to grow within.
So far, even the leading blockchain countries have been slow to accommodate this fast-growing business and technology development, thus hindering and even blocking it from achieving its potential.
Banks are swamped with hundreds of tech CVs: here’s the new way to stand out
- Written by: eFinancial Careers
- Category: Banking
Tired of carefully massaging your CV for every job posting, then waiting as your application is buried under a pile of rival CVs that most managers will barely skim through? Guess what – banks are losing interest in seeing hundreds of tech CVs swamping every IT role they post, all carefully keyword-matched yet unverifiable in the real world.
Technology hiring in banking is increasingly moving away from the advertised position. Even where roles are posted with job boards and recruiters, the selection process is evolving beyond the “talking heads” interview.
Forgery Is Still a Problem - New Bank-Note Technology Can Combat
- Written by: Matthew S Daye
- Category: Currency
With all the dollar counterfeiting going on, it's no wonder that the Secret Service is starting to up their methods of forgery prevention. Introduction of new notes, with re-designed security features, has been their primary defense. As new technologies are developed, these methods are becoming increasingly more sophisticated.
That Tax Free Bitcoin Economy You’ve Dreamt About Can’t Exist
- Written by: Crypto Coins News
- Category: Digital Currency
The IRS asked Coinbase to produce records for users over a wide time period: two years. Members of the Bitcoin Community have expressed outrage over this. In fact, even Coinbase, whose CEO Brian Armstrong oft takes a pro-regulation stance, has rebuffed the move.
Watch A Security Expert Find An ATM Skimmer
- Written by: Benjamin Tedesco
- Category: ATM
ATM Skimmers are on the rise. A day goesn't go past when you don't hear in the news another ATM skimmer found at machines all over the worled.
Smartphone Payments Are India's Best Spark for Modern Banking
- Written by: Payments Source
- Category: Cards & Payments
In many emerging markets, daily financial transactions—buying groceries, paying a utility bill, cashing a paycheck or billing a customer—are notoriously difficult. Banking institutions are few and far between, and large swaths of the population have little or no access to them.
