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A while back we gave Finextra Community members the ability to add their twitter feeds into their Network Activity panel. We were obtaining/using a member's Twitter RSS Feed to pull the data across. T...
One of my earlier blog posts discussed Big Data in 2012 and its forecasted popularity throughout the year. The post explored how companies have the opportunity to take advantage of the market intelli...
The potential for speech recognition to augment and enhance mobile banking has been expressed several times in this group over the past few months. It makes sense. After all, m-banking apps have the p...
Secure: what consumers really want When it comes to the Internet, mobile or not, you hear the word "secure" frequently these days. There are many concepts that are presented as directly rela...
Does the increasing predominance of agile methodologies for I.T. projects spell the end for ‘traditional’ project management methodologies like Prince2? If you have a vested interest in doing so, then...
This is a Marks & Spencer bank. Over the next two years, the retailer is opening 50 new in-store branches throughout the country, the first of which will launch in July at M&S's flagship Marbl...
Maturity across the Counterparty Credit Risk (CCR) and Credit Valuation Adjustments (CVA) space varies greatly across the industry. Our recent survey provided some interesting insights as to whether b...
While it hasn’t yet come into force, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act ('FATCA') has already stirred some very heated debate. Regulatory bodies, industry experts and financial services providers ...
In an earlier post, I said that usability at multiple touch points was imperative to the success of the digital wallet. But there's more to it than just putting a multi touch point strategy in place. ...
"It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!" Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-g...
Mobile operators, handset makers, retailers and financial institutions are all staking their claim for a share of the digital wallet opportunity. Who wins the wallet war will depend upon a number of f...
In February this year, Barclays introduced PingIt - a mobile platform for account-to-account payments. Antony Jenkins, Chief Executive, Barclays Retail and Business Banking said: “Barclays Pingit co...