Kalypton collaborates with Akhet Consulting on Presentation to ITU in Baku

Kalypton was delighted to make a con­tri­bu­tion to a present­a­tion made by Mr. Stew­art White, CEO of Akhet Con­sult­ing to an ITU Regional Work­shop in Baku. The present­a­tion was entitled “Mobile Pay­ments: The Issues and Pro­spects for the Devel­op­ment” with an emphasis on devel­op­ments in Africa and Middle East and recom­mend­a­tions. At the policy level, Read More …

Kalypton presents at Financial Summit in Guatemala City

Kalypton COO Alun Thomas presents at Fin­an­cial Sum­mit in Guatem­ala City 10/7/2014 On July 10th, Colum­bus Busi­ness Solu­tions held the latest in a series of Fin­an­cial Sum­mits for their many bank­ing cli­ents at the Bar­celo Hotel in Guatem­ala City. Alun Thomas was grate­ful for the oppor­tun­ity to talk on the sub­ject of the nature of money Read More …

Kenya Bankers Association

Kalypton CEO Lars Dav­ies and COO Alun Thomas present Tereon to 100 Bank Exec­ut­ives in Nairobi Janu­ary 28th 2014 Pos­ted on Janu­ary 28, 2014 by Kalypton-admin Kalypton were delighted to speak at an event arranged by the Kenya Bankers Asso­ci­ation at the Nairobi Hilton The present­a­tion and demon­stra­tion of Tereon was a part of reg­u­lar event Read More …

Kalypton CEO Lars Davies quoted in Mondato report entitled Reg­u­la­tions in MFS: Con­straints or Neces­sary Protections

In a recent news­letter to its sub­scribers, Mond­ato, the lead­ing US-​based con­sultancy and advis­ory ser­vice in mobile fin­an­cial ser­vices (MFS) explored the ques­tion whether reg­u­la­tions were under­mining the poten­tial of mobile money solu­tions to accel­erate eco­nomic devel­op­ment in many coun­tries. With his extens­ive exper­i­ence of reg­u­la­tion of digital pay­ment solu­tions, Mr. Dav­ies argued that intel­li­gent Read More …

Federal Reserve Banks research

Kalypton con­trib­utes to con­sulta­tion exer­cise con­duc­ted by Fed­eral Reserve Banks of USA Dec 13 2013 Pos­ted on Decem­ber 13, 2013 by Kalypton-admin On Septem­ber 10th 2013, the Fed­eral Reserve Banks star­ted a con­sulta­tion exer­cise in pur­suit of a bet­ter pay­ment sys­tem for the USA. In the con­sulta­tion paper launch­ing the pro­cess, the Fed­eral Reserve Banks lis­ted five Read More …

Kalypton demon­strates Tereon at Fino­vateEurope 2013

On Feb­ruary 12th & 13th, over 700 people atten­ded at Old Billings­gate Mar­ket Hall to watch as 64 com­panies unveiled their latest and greatest fin­an­cial tech­no­logy. The pro­cess to secure a present­ing slot at Finovate is highly com­pet­itive and Kalypton was delighted to be selec­ted. This was our first oppor­tunity to present Tereon to such Read More …

Security and com­pli­ance: can you ever have one without the other?

In a recent blog, Kevin Town­send, founder of ITse​curity​.com, addresses the com­monly held mis­ap­pre­hen­sion that an organ­iz­a­tion is com­pliant if it is secure. In his art­icle he quotes Lars Dav­ies, CEO of Kalypton as fol­lows: ‘The prob­lem comes from the fact that com­pli­ance and secur­ity are not com­mut­ative,’ he told me. ‘One does not neces­sarily Read More …

Experts Debate the Security of EMV

In an art­icle for Bank Sys­tems and Tech­no­logy, Olivia LaB­arre high­lights increas­ing con­cerns about the EMV secur­ity stand­ard. The art­icle quotes: ‘Lars Dav­ies, CEO and founder of Kalypton, a group of com­panies that spe­cial­izes in secure inform­a­tion man­age­ment and elec­tronic pay­ment sys­tems, says the find­ings sug­gest that EMV needs to be replaced by a new, Read More …