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a non-active Finextra member | 04/01/2012 | 3460 views

A Five Percent Return on Facebook Credits?

Walk by the enormous gift card displays at big box retailers like Walmart, Target, and Best Buy, and you will see gift cards for Facebook Credits in $10, $25, and $50 denominations (Credits are currently worth $.10). Other than purchasing Credits directly through Facebook, this is currently the only mainstream way to acquire Credits. Yes, you can... Tags: PaymentsGroup: Finance 2.0

a non-active Finextra member | 19/12/2011 | 2501 views

Better Joy Through Finance

The holidays are, for some, an unbearably stressful time of year. The food, the parties, the relatives, and, of course, the gifts, all conspire to make miserable what should be fun and enjoyable. Here at DRS Advisors we are always looking for ways to apply the power of financial engineering to making life more enjoyable, if ruthlessly practical a... Tags: PaymentsGroup: Finance 2.0

a non-active Finextra member | 19/06/2011 | 3638 views

Financial App Resurgence

For years the quality of Facebook financial applications has left a lot to be desired. With a few notable exceptions - Fantasy Stock Exchange, for example, which went on to become KaChing and now Wealthfront - finance apps have been largely entertainment-oriented, unstable, and unsupported.The tide seems to be changing with the introduction of two... Tags: Trade execution, Online bankingGroup: Finance 2.0

a non-active Finextra member | 15/12/2010 | 4256 views

A Social Strategy for Kiva - Part 2

In Part I of this post we blogged about how Kiva stands to benefit greatly by adopting a more social design and, more importantly, incorporating game-like mechanics to expand its user base and create a rich, engaging environment for lenders. On Friday, GamesBeat(VentureBeat) published a post on the trend in "gamification" of applications, and how V... Tags: Payments, Retail bankingGroup: Finance 2.0

a non-active Finextra member | 02/12/2010 | 3188 views

A Social Strategy for Kiva - Part 1

In her widely-read report on Internet trends, current Morgan Stanley (soon to be Kleiner Perkins) analyst Mary Meeker poses an interesting question: Do humans want everything to be like a game? Given what's happening across the Web, it's hard to answer anything but yes. Life, as we well know, is largely a game, yet it's difficult to imagine certa... Tags: Online banking, Payments