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Matt White

Good time to bury bad news?

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...

21 Dec 2007
Matt White

Phishy Phil and the attack of the killer worms

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...

20 Sep 2007
Matt White

If this is the future I'll give it a miss

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...

14 Sep 2007
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Matt White

A novel approach to CRM

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...

10 Jul 2007
Matt White

Want to be a darts master? Buy a BlackBerry

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 ...

05 Jul 2007
Matt White

Bye-bye Bangkok

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. ...

21 Jun 2007
Matt White

The growth of Microfinance

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...

20 Jun 2007
Matt White

Customer satisfaction?

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...

19 Jun 2007
Matt White

Tired in Thailand

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...

19 Jun 2007
Matt White

MasterCard and Visa feeling the squeeze?

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...

25 May 2007
Matt White

The future of ATMs

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 ...

24 May 2007
Matt White

Are the French lazy?

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...

24 May 2007

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