Trends in Financial Services

Group founded 21 Feb 2007
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A community to discuss the future of financial services and any other interesting trends, strategies, ideas, views.

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John Cant

Digital Alcohol

I am just back from an entertaining and informative session at SunLive07, with particular items of note including two MiFID experts (Bob Fuller of Equiduct and Nick Gibson of ABN) actually agreeing on...

13 Mar 2007
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Zopa introduce a new investment asset class

Zopa continue to send disruptive signals into the financial services space. They are progressing well on discussions to include Zopa loans within Self-Invested Personal Pension (SIPP). This asset cl...

12 Mar 2007
Elton Cane

Making banking channels more accessible

The trained dog at the ATM story got me thinking about how well banks are catering to disabled communities with their banking channels -- whether branch, ATM or website. I recall that some banks have ...

02 Mar 2007
Elton Cane

For mobile payments convenience is king

What's interesting about the DoCoMo mobile payment technology referenced in this recent story, and what differentiates it from many other m-payment initiatives operating elsewhere in the world, is th...

28 Feb 2007
John Cant

Dont you just love the internet

Well the answer is obviously yes, I do. Particularly when it throws up in that Hitch Hicker’s Guide to the Galaxy, maximum improbability drive way a gem like “Managers Say the Majority of Information...

27 Feb 2007
Elton Cane

Bank statement as a tool for identity theft

Looks like National Australia Bank (NAB) is the latest bank to fall victim to mail-out problems that compromise customer data. They're not the first, and are unlikely to be the last. The usual bank s...

26 Feb 2007
Paul Penrose

MyBankSpace

Belgian financial services firm Fortis has made a bold move into the social networking space with the launch of a new Website. The join2grow network is being touted by the bank as a MySpace for entrep...

19 Feb 2007
Paul Penrose

Microsoft micropayments

Further to my recent musings on Microsoft Points (The Virtual Bank of Microsoft), Dow Jones reports on CNN that Microsoft boss Bill Gates has been looking into the possibility of developing an online...

29 Jan 2007

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