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Elizabeth Lumley

Banking, risk and payments - our industry in flux

I will be moderating the afternoon financial services session during IBM's UK Impact 2010 conference next June 8, 2010 in London. There will be a full day of financial services and technology discuss...

03 Jun 2010
A Finextra Member

Bank e-invoicing business case lies in the bigger picture

E-invoicing has been a firm fixture on the banking conference agenda for at least the last five years and the recent EBA Day was no exception. Banks have been rather territorial over e-invoicing, whic...

03 Jun 2010
Brett King

Facebook isn't dangerous - it's just different

Last week my esteemed colleague Robert Siciliano blogged about the Dangers of Facebook. This was in response to collective pressure on Facebook's privacy policies and the various media coverage relate...

02 Jun 2010
Finance 2.0
Elizabeth Lumley

Twitterview 3 - This time it's Citi

Ah, finallly, spring is in the air, and Finextra is, once again, embarking on another, real-time, live Twitterview. This time, it's with the big boys-global banking giant Citi. Finextra will be Q&...

02 Jun 2010
Social Banks
A Finextra Member

Hyperinflation: An Upcoming Black Swan in Payments?

With no inflation in sight, why am I writing about hyperinflation? Remember, in October 2008, the deer in the headlights look on the faces of economics experts? Nobody in charge knew what was going on...

02 Jun 2010
A Finextra Member

E-Invoicing Barriers

First day of EBA Day in Luxemburg, e-invoicing had been coined to the audiences. The event held on right after the release of EBA and Innopay’s E-invoicing 2010 European Market Guide report. The first...

02 Jun 2010
Finance 2.0
Rik Coeckelbergs

HSBC rolls out online video consultations

I really like this kind of innovation honestly. It is cost saving, client friendly and lets banks do business on a geographically larger scale, well done HSBC! Of course this is not a new technology. ...

01 Jun 2010
Innovation in Financial Services
A Finextra Member

Barclays compromise financial privacy

On September 23, 2009 I discovered a vulnerability on Barclays online banking service which permitted a remote adversary to peruse customer bank statements. Barclays were immediately notified, but def...

01 Jun 2010
Information Security
A Finextra Member

Change the law to prevent company identity fraud?

In April this year, CIFAS – the UK’s Fraud Prevention Service reported that there had been a 20 per cent increase in the number of identity fraud victims in the first quarter of 2010 compared to the s...

01 Jun 2010
Online Banking
Uri Rivner

Surprising surge of Phishing on nationwide banks

In the last couple of months the RSA Anti Fraud Command Center witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of nationwide US financial brands attacked by Phishing. Ever since the good old days of the i...

31 May 2010
Innovation in Financial Services
Brett King

Analysis: Lack of innovation is killing bank valuation

No one can deny that banks have had a tough time of it when it comes to stock market valuations over the last couple of years. The global financial crisis, massive debt and NPL issues along with punis...

31 May 2010
Innovation in Financial Services
A Finextra Member

Strategy No. 2: Channel innovation - your hidden weapon.

What survival mantra are banks chanting today? Customer experience? Inclusivity? Agility? Cost optimisation? Efficiency? Done right, channel innovation can enhance all of these to become a means of co...

31 May 2010

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