Francesco Tornieri

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore · Faculty of Economics

Mobile technologies are increasingly pervading a substantial portion of everyday life. In particular, the economic sector of consumers and private sales has shown a very high rate of utilization of mobile applications. Mobile payments are no exception, and the economic development relies more and more on mobile technologies. Bank institutions and f...

The widespread use of cloud computing and services has modified IS architectures which have been well established and consolidated in the past. We can call this “The Era of (software) MicroServices” which has led towards the adoption of Information Systems models independent from traditional tiered-architecture. MicroServices offer a new conceptual...

New Software Development techniques with respect to cloud computing and eServices had modified IS architectures which were well established and consolidated in the past. The new methodologies of (software, micro/e) “Services” has pushed towards the adoption of software development organization independent from traditional tiered-architecture with t...

Most major banks, credit card payment processors/issuers and large businesses have come to adopt mobile pay- ment applications for smartphones. A ica, Asia, South America and other developing countries are no exceptions. e rate of growth of developing countries’ smartphone market penetration and usage have increased tremendously in recent years. Ba...

Most major banks, credit card payment processors/issuers and large businesses have come to adopt mobile pay- ment applications for smartphones. A ica, Asia, South America and other developing countries are no exceptions. e rate of growth of developing countries’ smartphone market penetration and usage have increased tremendously in recent years. Ba...

Near Field Communication (NFC) and contactless applications are increasing at unprecedented rate and their value is being recognised by the financial industry (Ok et al., 2011). Attacks are also increasing and they can compromise the business value on NFC applications (Murdoch and Anderson, 2010, Trend Micro, 2015). The present paper analyse the an...

Editorial Poverty reduction interventions focusing exclusively on economic growth often fail to address the complex interaction of economic, social, cultural and legal factors, which contribute to poverty and vulnerability. In many Asian and Pacific societies, women make up the greater proportion of the poor and socially vulnerable. They experience...