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Damage limitation

Q3 2008

The Payment Services Directive (PSD) requires banks to undermine their own business advantage. So do they know when they are beat - or will they take on non-bank upstarts? Shayla Walmsley reports?

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John Chaplin, First Data

Q3 2008

First Data is touted as one of the “new class of payment institutions” that could emerge from the EC’s Payment Services Directive. John Chaplin, First Data’s European Payments Adviser, tells financial-iabout its recent agreement with EUFISERV, which he says will provide a viable alternative in interbank processing solutions. He also tells us why First Data is making its Sibos debut alongside the ACHs.

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Risk Management

Get ready for Basel III

Q3 2008

In the wake of the subprime crisis and the credit crunch, William Essex puts the much maligned and controversial Basel II Accord under the microscope only to discover we are already “pregnant” with its successor.

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