The nauseating spectacle in the right-wing British media of the loss of the Hain Marbles in the House of Lords will have sickened freedom-loving peoples everywhere.
Since being expropriated from its native South Africa in the 1960s by imperialist lackeys masquerading as archaeologists, the Hain has been confined to a series of institutions in the UK, […]
On 18th October 2018 Pay.uk – the re-branded New Payment System Operator – held a launch event and distributed brochures about their procurement process for a strategic partner with whom to develop the New Payments Architecture – or “NPA” – for the UK’s retail payments.
The prospectus was entitled “Enabling a vibrant UK economy”, so we […]
We learned on Thursday 18th October 2018, at the launch event of Pay.uk, that any renewal of the UK’s retail payments infrastructure will have to wait until after the renewal of the Bank of England’s payments infrastructure. This is by far not the first […]
New Payment System Operator Ltd (“NPSO”) has just changed its name to Pay.uk Ltd, a shatteringly unoriginal name and unfortunate in that NPSO was meant to signal a clean break from the previous power structure over the UK payments landscape.
Payments UK, the previous industry trade body, scarcely lies cold […]
Based on research we carried out for Project Carlton and communications via our constituency MP, we made a submission on NPSO’s proposed “Confirmation of Payee” service and on Authorised Push Payment Fraud, and into the Treasury Select Committee for their inquiry into the work of the Payment Systems Regulator.
You can download the submission here
Shortly afterwards […]
The Eurozone banking system will have to gear itself up this autumn to take over the supply of credit from the Eurosystem, as the Eurosystem’s version of QE – called Asset Purchase Programmes – is wound down.
The winding-down is in stages. There will be no new purchases to start with, and then the proceeds of […]
If you have ever tried to listen to a damaged 78 rpm record of Harry Lauder’s “Keep Right On To The End Of The Road”, Theresa May’s speeches since Salzburg will be familiar in both form, and content, and in their constant re-covering of the same ground as the stylus slides uncontrollably between the grooves.
It […]
New Payment System Operator never fails to disappoint in terms of its governance and processes. Three Victor Meldrew moments in one week – that is a new record.
Firstly we have an announcement that Louise Beaumont, a member of NPSO’s End User Advisory Council (“EUAC”), has taken on a role as Industry Advisor at the large […]
Turkish bank Non-Performing Loans (“NPLs”) will soon be reaching World Class levels, even if the bar has been set very high by the banking systems of Greece and Cyprus: only NPL levels of 40-45% of total loans gets you into this elite club.
This is where a main result of the decline in the value of […]
The sponsor of Project Carlton has signed off on the initial research and endorsed that it be shared for validation with five or six interested parties.
You can get a sneak preview of the Preface in the inset within this blog.
The research plots the ministrations towards the UK payments landscape over the past 5 years of […]