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Standard practice in financial markets has been to look at what is happening in the USA, and then do the same. After all, it’s the biggest market, isn’t it, so they must know best (?!). I spent some ...
The demands on CIO budgets within the finance sector were supposed to ease this year, however demands of 'the same for less' are as strong as ever. There are several ways to meet this request includin...
We've made a couple of improvements to the site. You'll see on the home and main listing pages we now have a "most popular communities" listing in the right hand panel. While you're in a com...
Hidden in the text of the joint BancoSabadell and Telefonica instant banking announcement I noted quite a novel idea; they have committed to adapt the new 24X7 all -channels banking service to custome...
How to make friends and influence people: The UK’s Co-operative Bank is promising to donate 20 pence to a children’s charity in return for people who join the bank’s list of friends at its new MySpace...
........Echoing Chris Skinner's comments, pre-paid is a very attractive market with fantastic potential. Other interesting facts about the taget market of 18 - 34 year old UK folk include: Est. an...
Forget about trade services, trade finance, UCPs and documentary credit, what we all do now is called Financial Supply Chain (or SCF for Supply Chain Finance). How many "Heads of" have we se...
Interesting and slightly worrying item on The Register where a fully up-to-date and patched machine running the latest IE7 and Norton 360 was redirecting certain URLs to fake but convincing web sites...
A recent redesign of the Wells Fargo homepage led to a 50% uplift in online applications, more use of key functions such as the account log-in and branch and ATM location tools, and a significant fal...
With SIA-SSB and EBA Clearing putting the final touches on the SEPA Services for STEP2 over the next month, banks are gearing up to begin testing credit transfers from July, with testing windows for d...
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...
I’ve not heard any discussion about this guideline, which came out in January. This guideline was developed jointly by the market regulators, and is to be applied by the market regulators themselves....