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Christmas – a time to spend time with loved ones, relax with plenty of food and drink and, if you’re a troubled fintech firm, slip out any embarrassing news whilst the rest of us are busy doing better...
Boffins at Carnegie Mellon University have developed an online game designed to teach Internet safety. Anti-Phishing Phil sees our fishy hero swimming in a sea of worms (URLs). He/we must work out wh...
Barclaycard has gone all high tech with its marketing for the new OnePulse card and set up a Micro site called ‘The institute for future living’. A fictional character called Professor Danny shows yo...
I heard something pretty shocking today from the head of CRM at Turkish bank Garanti. Apparently if you go into one of their branches you have to swipe your bank card before receiving a ticket and wai...
RIM has just published some research that shows how incredibly efficient BlackBerries make their owners. Apparently your average user converts an hour of downtime into ‘productive time’ every day. In ...
So, the Temenos Client forum is over for another year. It has been an informative couple of days with some interesting discussions about where banking is going and how technology vendors can react. ...
Microfinance seems to have grabbed the attention of a lot of people at the Temenos Client Forum. Accion International are using eMerge on T24 as their technology platform to help bring commercial len...
This morning at the TCF we heard from CEO Andreas Andreades. Naturally he was in bullish mood following the Metavante tie up and takeover of German outfit ACTIS.BSP. Both of these deals provide a rout...
Your trusty Finextra man is currently in Bangkok for the Temenos Client Forum. Forgive me if the blogs from the event are incoherent rambles but a sleepless 12 hour flight followed by an evening spent...
The threat to the two giants of the card payments industry seems to be growing. Opposition to interchange fees and the emergence of alternatives could shake up the industry. According to The Economist...
A while back I blogged about the potential of biometric ATMs. I was taken by the news that they are being used to pay illiterate workers in India but my hopes for this technology to make the world a ...
Talking to Diebold CEO Tom Swidarski at the company's Emea Expo this week I was a little taken aback by his blunt answer to my question about last years closure of the ATM vendor's manufacturing plant...