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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
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
Paul Penrose

Skype dials up PayPal

The latest upgrade to the Skype internet telephony system is now available for download in beta format. Significant new features include the ability to incorporate a video snapshot and to send and rec...

29 Mar 2007
Trends in Financial Services
Paul Penrose

Mobile gold rush

After unsuccessfully dabbling with the mobile channel at the turn of the decade, US banks now appear ready to make a serious play for real-estate space on the consumer cell phone. Bank of America, w...

28 Mar 2007
Trends in Financial Services
Paul Penrose

Steam age security at Halifax

Here’s a story straight out of the steam age of information security. UK high street bank Halifax has been forced to apologise to 13,000 mortgage customers after losing a computer print out containing...

27 Mar 2007
Paul Penrose

Missing Link mystery solved

I blogged Monday about a curious report in the Sunday Times that identified the UK’s Link ATM network as the frontrunner to buy Lloyds TSB Registrars, the share registration arm of the UK bank. Llo...

23 Mar 2007
Finextra50 fintech index
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RBS and an unusual approach to staff morale

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 ...

23 Mar 2007
Paul Penrose

LloydsTSB appoints head of innovation

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. "...

23 Mar 2007
Futuristic Banking

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