by Roger Tristram | Aug 11, 2019 | Uncategorised
What’s new? Unprecedented public sector activity! Since the increase in merchant acquiring (card processing) costs** in 2015/16, we have seen unprecedented local authority activity, in a bid to secure improved services and reduce council costs. BRC have...
by Roger Tristram | Mar 28, 2019 | Uncategorised
What’s new? Treasury Policy & Procedure Manual 2019 has kicked off with an active interest in Treasury Policy. A comprehensive policy, as part of a treasury control framework, can help to minimize operational risk, by the tight management of financial risk...
by Roger Tristram | Jan 3, 2019 | Uncategorised
What’s new? Cross Border Payment Security Payment fraud is on the increase and hardly a day goes by without reports of the latest scam to hit the headlines. Sometimes it’s based on a simple lack of internal control somewhere in the payment process but...
by Roger Tristram | May 28, 2018 | Uncategorised
What’s new? Why Spreadsheets Are A Risk …. For those companies that are still using spreadsheets, I refer you to the rapid demise of Conviviality. A recent article in The Sunday Times*: “… a case study on how a £500m company can fall apart in a matter of weeks”...
by Roger Tristram | Feb 23, 2018 | Uncategorised
What’s new? Card costs increase …. AGAIN! It seems that no sooner have we adjusted to one change, than there is another around the next corner. The next development to brace yourselves for, is the increase in scheme fees that MasterCard and Visa have...