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During one of my client meetings, we were discussing social media with someone responsible for channels technology. Now this bank works in an diverse set of countries and a varying degree of client pr...
Is there a chance that Apple will push the use of iTunes as a payment mechanism beyond its own virtual store (imagine shopping on Amazon and paying using your iTunes account)? Will Google look to la
Since the financial world reeled in shock at that collapse of Lehman Brothers and the subsequent fallout in the World’s financial markets the banking community has been in a mode of self preservation....
With information being available at will, the world is one’s oyster. For banks, the democratisation of information represents an opportunity to stay abreast of the world’s latest developments and abso...
According to Kelkoo - the online retail comparison website - and Visa Europe, Monday 29 November is the busiest online shopping day of the year. Visa Europe expects 3.8m purchases worth £265m to be ma...
The Beatles are arguably one of the most successful bands of all time, but their foray into the digital music space has long been frustrated. In their first week on the iTunes store, however, the Bea...
With so many banking delivery options, channel innovation should have run out of steam or new ideas. But it’s amazing that its run is still sustaining, fuelled by new technology, consumer evolution a...
...mobile banking or The Ashes? Luckily we’re not talking about the Ashes here. According to the latest stats, Australian banks are getting more runs on the board than their UK counterparts by recordi...
As of May this year, only 4% of US FDIC insured institutions in the United States had any sort of mobile play, a small subset of this group had iPhone apps, and an even smaller percentage had Android ...
During the global financial crisis, governments spent billions to bail out banks in an effort to keep liquidity in the banking sector, largely so that lending could continue at a time when businesses ...
Eric Schmidt and the team at Google yesterday announced that they are going to beat Apple at the NFC game and will launch their new phone the Nexus S, code-named Gingerbread, within just 'weeks'. Chec...
I've had a quick shot at a mock-up advertisement of how Apple might launch the next iPhone 5 based on an earlier concept mock-up of what people thought the iPhone 4 might look like. I hope you like i...