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Listening to the Today programme this morning I was astonished by the story that RBS were threatening to discipline staff who banked with competitors. RBS state that candidates are told at interviews ...
James Gardner, director for retail banking in the global financial services group at Getronics is to take up a new position as head of innovation and research in group IT at the UK's LloydsTSB. "...
According to finextra, Mr Javier Perez, president, MasterCard Europe is quoted as saying : "The single euro payments area may currently be a term recognised in finance circles, but what the
I was talking today to Andreas Andreades, CEO of core banking system vendor Temenos, about the company's tie-up in the US with Metavante (more on that in my next post). Something he said as an aside p...
For merchants and consumers alike, speed of throughput at the check-out remains the primary incentive for uptake of a new payments format. This is why SMS-based mobile phone payment programmes such a...
Having survived since 1843 on their name, the Liverpool Victoria appear to have had a sudden attack of expensive rebranding. The new name, which only slightly resembles a typo is the catchy LV= as e...
I too have been trying to recover unnecessary charges; from my bank of choice, The Abbey. About two weeks ago I sent in my £10 cheque (It took me a while to remember where my cheque book was and blow...
South Africa's Mail & Guardian has a news report looking at the use of Cell Phone banking to bring low income groups into the banked population, and thereby increase their potential for economic ...
Offensive stereotyping, routine mis-selling, lying to customers. All in a day’s work for Barclays Bank staff, according to an undercover investigation by the BBC’s Whistleblower programme. The serious...
SpaceX - established in 2002 by PayPal founder Elon Musk - launched their budget rocket into space this morning with a modicum of success. Now that's what I call beta testing. Talking of PayPal, Fin...
I rang the Alliance & Leicester this morning and spoke to the Call Centre and explained that I had read a lot about the recovery of charges and wanted to know what I had to do to query and possibl...
I spotted the headline “Royal Bank of Scotland Launches New Mobile Banking Service in North Wales” on PR Newswire and thought that it sounded right up Finextra’s street. However, I was shocked to di...