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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 ...
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...
Someone today said “That might get delayed, like T+1 in the USA” – and it rang a bell with a question on it. The UK equity market runs on T+3 settlement – we all know that. I’m your average c...
Some confusion in the Finextra editorial office this past few days after we received conflicting press releases from Nationwide and the Royal Bank of Scotland both claiming to have launched the UK's f...
I was recently at the Dealing With Technology (DWT) conference in London, in fact I had the enviable (or unenviable should I say after standing for seven hours straight!) task of manning our companies...
Here are a couple of interesting ideas that I’ve heard in two different countries in the last week from different people. “If MiFID comes in on 1 November (note the ”If”) then it will come in graduall...
My wife came back from her mother’s last night – her father, Norman, passed away last year, and they had been cleaning out his sheds. Norman was a two-sheds man. He had something for everything. Sh...
A tornado whips through your town and flattens every building in sight – including the local bank. What’s your disaster recovery plan? This was the situation facing 83-year old Greensburg State Bank i...
I was at a payments industry conference in Frankfurt this week, presenting a view of a major corporate treasury department about the nature of the bank-to-corporate relationship. If you’re trying to s...
HSBC and Abbey have broken ranks with other UK banks and decided not to participate in a national push to supply online banking customers with two-factor authentication devices. While most of the maj...
There are not many things nicer than, on one trip last week, being able to stop between appointments to have an ice cream with a colleague outside La Scala on a hot, sunny day in Milan. There’s nothi...