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It is the age-old story for financial services: a traditional ‘work-horse’ business process within an organization seen as a cost centre so does not reap the technology investment that is necessary to...
Another day, another sorry tale of dirty tricks, identity theft and corporate espionage on the Finextra news beat. Intrigued? Then read on. I promise you won't be disappointed. A couple of weeks back ...
Last night on Newsnight, Shaun Woodward, made a spirited attempt to comment on the expenses scandal. In doing so, however, he highlighted yet another area of hypocrisy that underlines why our current...
The number of people who believe that they’re getting something for nothing with open source solutions never fails to surprise me. I can hear what people are thinking “he would say that, wouldn’t he”,...
Check progress here: http://boharald.blogspot.com/2009/05/consumer-e-invoicing-making-great.html Really important to provide same user experience for private-role and SME-role receivers and senders. ...
In a recent article in the New York Times, the major US credit card issuers have put on their safety belts and crash helmets, as they prepare for a major crash landing with their credit card portfoli...
There are no "private customers" either.. Only human customers in different roles. And they surely deserve to be served with similar tools, logic and language irrespective of the role. Anyth...
Lexis Nexis, which owns ChoicePoint, an information broker I recently blogged about that was hacked in 2005, was just hacked again this week. On Friday, LexisNexis Group notified more than 32,000 peo...
I seem to hear the sound of a stable door being shut, and long after the horse has bolted. The FSA seems finally to have realised that offshore call centres can constitute a risk in financial service...
The likes of Tesco and now Boots entering the retail banking space, according to recent reports, may seem a bit leftfield but in fact could pose a real menace to financial institutions. Consumer confi...
Apparently, more than 40% of senior bankers believe better data quality and availability are really quite important to improve risk management. So many cliches, such lack of imagination and inventiven...
The recent report from Arthur D Little, a global management consultancy specialising in strategy and operations management, predicting a 68 per cent per annum increase in mobile transaction volume to ...