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A community for discussing the application of Web 2.0 technologies to financial services.
Many businesses today are struggling with retaining and growing an ever-fickle customer base and arguably one of the most affected sectors at the moment is that of retail banking. With customer confi...
There are some early signals that the former smartphone leader may be staging a comeback as BlackBerry announced last week that sales of its flagship Z10 have exceeded expectations and that they have ...
Hoping to unwind on the AVE back to Madrid after a frenetic 2 days at Mobile World Congress, I can't help but ponder my insights and learnings as we cut across the Spanish countryside at 300 KM/H. It'...
So, the UK has woken up to, yet another, casualty on its high street. While the US is still sobbing into their glucose monitors at the loss of Twinkies, the UK is waving goodbye to suburban town centr...
In New York, in the early 1990s, there was a spate of serial robberies where muggers specifically targeted young Puerto Rican bus boys walking home late at night (or early morning) after a shift at a ...
We all know the statistics about the incredible growth of social media in the last years: there are now 1.5 billion social network users globally. But what came as a bit of a surprise to me (I was rea...
This post was originally called Atheists versus Evangelicals...then I walked away from it. Then I toyed with the idea of 'Battlefield Payments'...but what I really wanted to talk about was more than p...
Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, famously said that “everything significant we are working on is around mobile,” reflecting the current core focus on mobile in the technology industry – som...
Date Posted: 20 Oct 2017 Job Reference: G3RR-7TT Company: Nerdom Retail Bank Position Title: Chief Executive Officer Reports to: Board of Directors Reporting to this position: Chief Experience Office...
Some industry commentators have been predicting the death of banking is near. With disintermediation ripe and new entrants springing up everywhere, one thing is for sure, banking will never be the sam...
Transport for Greater Manchester (TGM) recently announced it will start rolling out a new smart ticketing system across the UK’s third biggest city. It’s a move that is well overdue and is sure to vas...
Just in case you missed it ... The iPhone 5 has finally landed!! While the usual queues greeted the latest instalment of the world’s best loved smartphone, in mobile payment circles, all the talk is a...