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Paul Penrose - Finextra - London | 31/05/2007 | 3369 views | 1 comment

Pimp my plantpot

How to make friends and influence people: The UK’s Co-operative Bank is promising to donate 20 pence to a children’s charity in return for people who join the bank’s list of friends at its new MySpace page. Now, we all know that buying friends on MySpace is not cool. But the Co-op has cleverly included the pay-per-friend scheme as... Tags: Retail banking

Paul Penrose - Finextra - London | 17/05/2007 | 3792 views

HSBC and Abbey send clear message to phishermen

HSBC and Abbey have broken ranks with other UK banks and decided not to participate in a national push to supply online banking customers with two-factor authentication devices. While most of the major banks are laying plans to introduce an assortment of random-number generating systems as a supplement to basic password controls, HSBC and Santander... Tags: Online banking, Retail banking

Paul Penrose - Finextra - London | 03/05/2007 | 4044 views

And the award for best banking Website goes to...

We don’t usually give much currency to business awards on Finextra. In the fintech sector they’re usually just another money-making wheeze dreamt up by desperate advertising execs at trade media outlets. You know the form: buy a table for £4000 and you too could walk off with best OMS widget award for 2007. Satirical re-insurance ... Tags: Online banking, Retail banking

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