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Last night I read idea of online platform, where experts on different business skills can offer their expertize for companies. Company called Abonnet offers online platform for advisory board. With th...
Harmonisation – outside of music, a term many of us have only encountered in respect to the European Union. In many areas of life in the EU, harmonisation to improve and provide consistent conditions ...
MasterCard has just joined Visa, Google, PayPal, Isis, O2 and a whole string of providers who are launching or preparing digital or mobile wallets. As frontiers between the online and physical worlds...
The march of the mobile wallet is gaining pace. April has seen Barclaycard roll out contactless stickers that can be attached to mobile phones held by UK Visa credit card customers. Meanwhile Ebay is ...
Broker-dealers have become the futurologists of the asset management industry. From what I have seen, the broker-dealer’s experience has affirmed the mutual fund transition to mandatory cost basis rep...
I recall a passionate debate in 2011 with some colleagues on if internationally trusted national passports (sometime in future) will be ever trusted by businesses to allow people access to their premi...
It was interesting to read that the FSA has warned retail banks to update their payment methods to improve customer service. In letters written in January the regulator urged banks to move with the ti...
In financial markets across the world, the trading benefits of up-to-date information are clear; you can trade at the right price and buy or sell as the market is turning towards or away from you, boo...
Rising postal costs, the need to go green and the relentless quest for better process efficiencies are increasing the pressure on companies to move their customers over to email billing. But turning o...
eBilling and paper suppression needs to be adopted by the majority of consumers for secure electronic document delivery to be successful. Gaining the customer's permission to turn off paper (or eConse...
I love online Personal Financial Management tools. These web based services which allow people to visualize and manage their financial lives in one place, using pretty graphs to show where their money...
I wanted to do something different with this piece. I was going through some old folders on my PC the other day and came across an old university assignment I did on banking in 2005. It was for an ...