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Archive for: November, 2012

Nick Ogden - Voice Commerce Group - London | 22/11/2012 | 1704 views

Alternative lending and Government spending

The relationship between banking and small business financing is not a healthy one. Recently this has become more extreme as media attention increasingly focuses on the failures of high street banks in the lending stakes. Now we see banks, non-banks and politicians alike entering the fore in a bid to support small businesses. But given current eco...

Michael Nuciforo - Keatan - London | 14/11/2012 | 4794 views | 1 comment

Ferrari versus Toyota

One of the most hotly contested topics of 2012 has surely got to be the Native versus HTML5 debate. I can understand why. We live in a world surrounded by screens. Different size screens for different platforms. Different interactions for different device types. Everything is an interface, and it’s become apparent that your brand needs... Tags: Mobile & online, Retail banking

Michael Nuciforo - Keatan - London | 11/11/2012 | 6707 views

Location, Location, Location

Mobile is the most disruptive consumer product of all time. We went from aspiring to have a computer in every home to having a computer in every pocket. Soon it will be a computer in every object. The adoption of mobile devices has driven the more social, more informed and more location aware lives we now live. There has been a lot of debate abo... Tags: Mobile & online, Payments

Ward Hagenaar - Qhuba Consulting - Utrecht | 05/11/2012 | 3628 views

The True Value of Mobile Transactions

It is easy to think that attractiveness of mobile transactions is in the embracement of near field communication (NFC). Banks, telco’s, manufacturers, the Forresters, Javelins and Gartners have put in on the agenda since 2006 and promised the infrastructure would be there in the next year, or the year after, or... Smartphones equipped with N... Tags: Cards, Payments

Nick Ogden - Voice Commerce Group - London | 01/11/2012 | 2593 views

Business bank accounts - free vs. fee?

Banking has been hitting the headlines in all manner of guises over recent months – from IT problems through to bonuses, the UK’s banking community has never been under more scrutiny. This is why it came as little surprise a few months ago when attention turned to banking fees and the idea of ‘free banking’. Of course, there... Tags: Payments