Passports, E-Money and Payments Services
Most people associate the word ‘passport’ with a leather bound document enabling individuals to travel to foreign countries. For the people at hyperWALLET and those at other international payments...
View ArticlePrepaid card compliance & the power of prepaid
[Sponsored post. Use code "HW200" when registering for $200 off] PaymentsTalk.com readers — here are two upcoming prepaid conferences which may be of interest: Prepaid Card Compliance Tuesday, January...
View ArticleSquare Comes to Canada
Square Reader - in both official languages I went to the downtown Vancouver Apple store yesterday to buy an iPad mini so hyperWALLET’s development team could see how our IOS apps will operate on the...
View ArticleEnsuring Compliance and Competitiveness in a Global Market
[SPONSORED POST -- All Paymentstalk.com readers will receive a $200 discount when registering for the conference using code "HW 200". ] American Conference Institute announces inaugural International...
View ArticleMoney, Money, Money , print me some more MONEY !!!
Weekly Market Commentary – Week Ending 07/10/11 OVERVIEW The Bank of England finally caved in under the pressure of a faltering UK economy and increased its quantitative easing program on Thursday by...
View ArticleLehmann’s or the Euro zone crisis – Which one will be bigger ?
OVERVIEW All eyes this week were clearly focused again on the ever mounting Euro debt Crisis and the challenges the Euro zone faces over Greece. Earlier in the week cracks seemed to be appearing in...
View ArticleThe Currency Corner: FX and Market Analysis
NB: hyperWALLET has been processing payments in the England and Europe for over 5 years, but we’ve recently expanded our (human) footprint in the UK, too. Our team in London now has both sales and...
View ArticleIntroducing The Open Sanction Data Project
Over the past decade, United Nations resolutions and domestic equivalents designed to combat crime and terrorism have imposed an increasing operational burden on the financial services industry....
View ArticleThe Remittance Buzz – hyperWALLET’s “hyperREMIT.com” Philippines money...
Are you familiar with the buzz around workers’ remittances? Prominent institutions such as the World Bank, the Inter-American Dialogue and even Swift have devoted significant resources to studying...
View ArticlePost Offices: more than unionized workers going on strike every now and then?
Also a final whine about TD declining my card. Canada rolled out chip+pin for our national debit scheme in 2010 and we’ve all just about gotten the hang of it at the POS now, even cranially-challenged...
View ArticleA 10% plague on all your houses
According to the CIA Factbook, the world’s 2010 GDP is estimated at 75 Trillion dollars. According to the Boston Consulting group, the global payments industry is approaching 500B in revenue. According...
View ArticleCan this Argument be Patented?
In November 2010 hyperWALLET launched an SMS-based remittance service called hyperREMIT for the Canada–>Philippines corridor that I’m really excited about. I’m excited about it for a number of...
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