Media-Insert Communications

Media-Insert Communications

The blog of Media-Insert Communications – featuring freelance P.R. and journalism links to the work of Graham A. Jarvis.

Editing, Journalism, Copywriting, and Public Relations

Category: Clients, Past and Present

  • Geoff Tunbridge – Director Solution Consulting for APAC at ACI Worldwide, talked about real-time payments. He discussed the state of play, the lessons that have been learnt and how to make money from real-time payments. He warned that having a real-time payments scheme doesn’t automatically translate into instant success. Clear use cases are essential, with…

  • Thankfully, cross-border payments are getting faster. In a panel session featuring experts from organisations such as the Bank of England, Deutsche Bank, and InstaRem, it was revealed that the fastest cross-border instant payment was completed within 13 seconds. There are more connections between systems today, making such results as this possible. Singapore, Australia and in…

  • During the plenary session, the Chairman of SWIFT, Yawar Shah, said that advancements in the banking and payments sector requires “innovation with a coalition of the willing” – a global co-operative of SWIFT member organisations working together to effect change – moving away from focusing on driving efficiencies alone to investing in people, knowledge, skills…

  • CEOs and their companies want to get certain messages across,…the best way to do that is by demonstrating knowledge and expertise. Any consideration to the greatness of a product must be a secondary concern from the perspective of wanting to list all of its features and benefits.

  • David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks, has commented about how he sees cloud-based leak detection and remote risk monitoring systems developing over the next five years. “At present, leak detection is a reactive and response-based system. However, with cloud-based monitoring of leak detection systems, there’s the potential for gathering vast amounts of historic data.…

  • “Insurance is a hard business to be in and while car manufacturers may play a role in delivering the insurance services of the future, we see this working as a partnership arrangement with the insurance sector.” – Graham Gordon, director, global telematics at LexisNexis Risk Solutions.

  • At a very basic level, all directors, including your MD, should back up all their data, personal and corporate, using a variety of cloud services, such as Dropbox or Google Drive. It’s often a good idea to get back-up solutions on more than one service to be sure work can continue unabated even if disaster…

  • “bunq is one of a number of challenger banks shaking the status quo like N26 and Monzo. The key is that their appeal to particularly expats as they make it simple and nearly free to look after your money” – Chris Skinner, a co-founder of the UK’s Financial Services Club

  • Early in 2019 Brian Chidester, Senior Industry Lead for Public Sector at OpenText, wrote about the trends that will affect the public sector this year. In his blog for the company, it stated that ‘2019 technology trends driving IT modernisation in the Public Sector’… Continue reading Public Sector Technology: Be Smart With WAN Data Acceleration…

  • Learn how Bridgeworks Ltd accelerates WAN data.