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And that needs to be SaaS based. Well, that's what Sramana Mitra thinks.
A sign of the times: The Cheque and Credit Clearing Company (C&CCC) and Apacs, the UK payments association, has issued a new advice guide for consumers on how to write and receive cheques. Recent...
Australia's BankWest has released three mutant kittens into the worldwideinterweb. See them perform their song here. Could someone explain to me what is going on here? Other than an ad agency gets ...
As the financial markets veer reluctantly towards reconstruction (mainly because of political objectives) the major obstacle the industry has of "identity standards" looms like an ogre. The ...
Bear in mind the ticket system uses RFID chips and in my experience the Black Hat's leave a trick or two up their sleeve so it's probably worse than one might think. You probably have time to read thi...
The credit card industry is on the edge. Being a card issuer is not the most comfortable feeling now. After the mortgage meltdown, an impending consumer recession, falling interest rates, regulatory p...
I saw this survey last week that revealed 53% of UK banks fail to respond appropriately to online queries or emails. A US version of the same study last year found that of 72 banks surveyed, well ove...
Research from ComPeer suggests that demand for financial advice has slipped sharply in the past four years. In the research among 2000 adults, respondents were asked who they regarded as their main ...
The nationalisation of Northern Rock was inevitable after the Governments interference in the original crises. Interfering in the problems of Northern Rock at such an early stage, in the glare of publ...
The Register are reporting that HMRC apparently got through an impressive £1.4m in 2006 coming up with a new slogan - HMRC Ambition. Yup that's only 700,000 per word. Bargain. While we're on the top...
Over the course of the past year the Finextra editorial team have been honing their new media skills with a series of face-to-face video interviews with high-profile participants in the fintech commu...
As the SEPA fanfares of the 28th January disappear into the distance, it's worth analyzing how all this could have been handled so much better, to achieve the mutual objectives of the banks and most i...