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Matt White

Pointless research?

According to a survey, nearly half of Which? members are ‘annoyed’ with their bank’s interest rate. Now there’s a shock…

04 Apr 2007
A Finextra Member

Room with a view

Galvin at Windows is a stunning new French restaurant situated on the 28th floor of the Hilton Hotel on London's Park Lane, and probably has the most stunning restaurant view in the whole of London. A...

03 Apr 2007
After hours
Paul Penrose

Trading floor bonanza cue for market downturn?

Estate agents and trading technology suppliers in New York and London are preparing for a business bonanza as bulge bracket investment banks scope for sites to build a new generation of trading floors...

03 Apr 2007
Finextra50 fintech index
John Doyle

The SWIFT Challenge

As any politician will tell you, the first 100 days for a new leader are crucial as your audience is receptive, forgiving and open to change; after this though the judgments start to be made and the...

03 Apr 2007
SWIFT Matters
A Finextra Member

Why mobile banking is not Internet banking

The Internet changed banking forever. It is impossible to consider banking without the functionality, the ease of use and the availability that Internet banking brought to the majority of people WITH ...

03 Apr 2007
A Finextra Member

Blog now or you're fired

In an interesting twist of daftness it would appear blogging is to be made compulsory at Sony BMG, according to The Register. In the past, people have got in serious hot water after blogging and not ...

03 Apr 2007
Cringeworthy marketing gallery
A Finextra Member

ABN Amro problem was predictable

I blogged here last August, that it was predicted Man in the Middle attacks would defeat tokens, and sure enough here we go. "The bank says that its customers opened an email attachment that res...

03 Apr 2007
Trends in Financial Services
Elton Cane

HSBC bluetooth marketing: Spam, or not spam?

Spam (noun) is commonly defined as an unsolicited commerical message sent indiscriminantly to mass recipients. Is this what HSBC is trialling in the name of marketing? The initial message it is sendin...

02 Apr 2007
Trends in Financial Services
Elton Cane

Payments-mobile comms convergence - the real-estate model

Last week, as Visa USA president and CEO John Coghlan called for closer collaboration between the payment card and mobile industries (see Finextra article here), how this collaboration might work in p...

02 Apr 2007
Trends in Financial Services
Paul Penrose

Wells Fargo: Adventures in the blogosphere

Wells Fargo launched its first blog Guided by History a year ago today. Initially intended as a short-term experiment, the US bank has been so impressed by the experience that it has since launched t...

30 Mar 2007
Trends in Financial Services
Paul Penrose

Winterflood's bare-naked brokers promise Full Monty

This urge for City types to bare all in public is getting out of hand. No doubt inspired by the shameless exploits of the Team Bearing Bank tube video strippers, four brash young things from Winterflo...

30 Mar 2007
Whatever...
Paul Penrose

Video killed the offshore call centre

The days of broadcast media training for bank call centre operatives may not be far off. The UK's first direct in November announced plans to offer video access to customer representatives over the...

30 Mar 2007
Futuristic Banking

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