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.  Sanctioned Individual and Sanction Entity list screening have become a standard operational protocol at financial institutions and money services companies. Financial Institutions rely on proprietary datasets drawn from [...]

hyperWALLET is at once two things: a technology company, and an electronic remittance service provider. ‘Eating one’s own dog food’ is a term familiar to all technology CEOs;  we all throw it out casually in conversation when in the company of non-technology types, mostly to sound cool, but sometimes with a genuine right of usage. [...]

While recently researching the payments landscape of a new international market that hyperWALLET is considering entering, it occurred to me that there really is a wealth of information available online nowadays on topics of interest to payments professionals.  I’d like to share a list of my favorite sources and publications  in the hope that  you [...]

NACHA recently hosted its annual Institute of International Payments at the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta, Georgia (Nov. 17-19, 2009). As hyperWALLET‘s Director of Treasury, I was delighted to attend this conference to learn from both peers and industry. Despite a rather small group just shy of 60 participants, the session leaders did not disappoint; [...]

hyperWALLET is off to MMT09 next week in Dubai where we will be sharing some of our real-world experiences operating  cross-border online and mobile remittance services. While we are there, I’m looking forward to meeting the operators of next-generation services like M-Pesa and Zap in Kenya,  Wing in Cambodia, and PayMate in India.   These initiatives [...]