Telecommunications, Cable & Utilities

Both Visa and MasterCard announced their support for Host Card Emulation (HCE) and their intent to release HCE specifications soon. I have been talking...

February 20, 2014 by Cherian Abraham

By: Teri Tassara In my blog last month, I covered the importance of using quality credit attributes to gain greater accuracy in risk models. ...

January 10, 2014 by Guest Contributor

When I wrote about Host Card Emulationback in March, it provoked much debate around whether this capability will die on the cutting floor or...

November 7, 2013 by Cherian Abraham

TL;DRRead within as to how Touch ID is made possible via ARM’s TrustZone/TEE, and why this matters in the context of the coming Apple’s...

October 2, 2013 by Cherian Abraham

By: Matt Sifferlen I recently read interesting articles on the Knowledge@Wharton and CNNMoney sites covering the land grab that’s taking place among financial services startups...

September 25, 2013 by Guest Contributor

Contact information such as phone numbers and addresses are fundamental to being able to reach a debtor, but knowing when to reach out to...

June 10, 2013 by Kelly Ward

At midnight yesterday, Google sent me an email on how the new GoogleWallet update will now allow me to store my “Citi MasterCard” online....

January 31, 2013 by Cherian Abraham

First, it aims to drastically reduce payment acceptance costs through any and all means and Secondly – keep merchant data firmly within their purview....

January 25, 2013 by Cherian Abraham

All skip tracing data is the same, right? Not exactly. While there are many sources of consumer contact data available to debt collectors, the...

January 22, 2013 by Rollin Girulat

It comes as no surprise to anyone that cell phone usage continues to rise, while at the same time the usage of wire lines,...

October 31, 2012 by Rollin Girulat

Contributed by: David Daukus As the economy recovers from the recession, consumers are becoming more responsible with their credit card usage; credit card debts...

October 24, 2012 by Guest Contributor

I'm here in Vegas at the Mobile2020 conference and I am fascinated by my room key. This is not the usual “insert in to...

October 21, 2012 by Cherian Abraham

By: Kyle Aiman Let’s face it, debt collectors often get a bad rap.  Sure, some of it is deserved, but the majority of the...

October 10, 2012 by Guest Contributor

By: Kyle Aiman For more than 20 years, creditors have been using scores in their lending operations.  They use risk models such as the...

September 10, 2012 by Guest Contributor

By: Uzma Aziz They say, “a bird in the hand is better than two in the bush” …and the same can be said about customers...

August 20, 2012 by Guest Contributor