Complacent or short-sighted?
March 19th, 2010 admin
[ Dave Birch ] I was in a ” Chatham House ” session recently (naturally, I can’t say where or why) when one of the regulators present said that he thought that banks were being complacent about their future in retail payments because the Payment Services Directive (PSD) was opening the market up to other kinds of organisations (he specifically flagged up the technology-driven service providers) whereas banks’ strategic plans are still…
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