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EBAday agenda 2007 - SEPA: leading the transformation

EBAday is now less than a fortnight away. You may like to know that the latest EBAday agenda is available to download as a PDF on the EBAday web site. If you've any comments on the agenda - log in ...

25 May 2007
EBAday
Matt White

The future of ATMs

A while back I blogged about the potential of biometric ATMs. I was taken by the news that they are being used to pay illiterate workers in India but my hopes for this technology to make the world a ...

24 May 2007
Paul Penrose

E-gold diggers

Douglas Jackson, chairman and founder of digital cash enterprise e-gold, has mounted a spirited defence against an indictment charging e-gold Ltd., Gold & Silver Reserve, Inc., and the directors o...

04 May 2007
John Doyle

The SWIFT Future

The excellent article Chris Skinner wrote re: SWIFT numbers intrigued me. I wondered if you take these very simple parameters and use them to predict growth, what will SWIFT look like in the coming y...

01 May 2007
SWIFT Matters
Paul Penrose

KKR takeover of First Data: the deal goes sour for JPMorgan

Nice gossipy piece of unsourced news from Reuters about a reputed spat between Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) and JPMorgan over the private equity firm’s proposed $29 billion takeover of First Data. A...

27 Apr 2007
Finextra50 fintech index
John Doyle

Recovering Bank Charges - 4

See also Recovering Bank Charges - 1 Recovering Bank Charges - 2Recovering Bank Charges - 3 The 40 days are up and I called the call centre and spoke to Gary. The bank have apparently been trying to...

26 Apr 2007
Trends in Financial Services
John Doyle

Recovering Bank Charges - 3

See Recovering Bank Charges - 1 and Recovering Bank Charges - 2. Just an update I am afraid - no results, yet! I hadn't heard from the Alliance & Leicester so over the weekend I called their call ...

16 Apr 2007
Trends in Financial Services
Hoss Atri

Googling your card

I am pleased to see that Google has brought its online payments service to the UK. The more payment services choices of global scale and reach we have the better. I wonder how long it will be before o...

13 Apr 2007
A Finextra Member

Paypal - a brief history from Chris

Superb piece of research from Chris, detailing Paypals history since inception in Dec 98, with statistics, and more importantly, why they were successful. "In fact, although many of us think PayP...

11 Apr 2007
Trends in Financial Services
Matt White

Biometric cash machines

Interesting story on the BBC Web site about biometric ATMs. They are being used in India to pay illiterate workers who have trouble with the paperwork involved in collecting their wages from the bank...

05 Apr 2007
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
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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

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