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Elton Cane

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News Corp Australia

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10 years of mobile banking - what's changed?

Is it just me, or does mobile banking seem to perpetually be the next big thing? Maybe it's because I remember how underwhelmed I was by the first generation of WAP browsers on mobile phones when trying to access my bank account in 2000, but over the past decade I can count on one hand the number of times I've done "mobile banking" on my...

12 April 2010 /retail Innovation in Financial Services

Banks accept Dubai assassins' stolen IDs

Quite a few countries around the world had passports of their citizens copied as part of the assassination of Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. While the photos disemminated by the media were undoubtedly of the assassins, the rest of the details were of real citizens. Many media outlets in Australia happily splashed hi-res images of the full passp...

01 March 2010 /security Information Security

Another ill-considered bank logo

ANZ have done a rebrand and ditched their blue stripy logo for a blue logo with three blobs. http://thefinancialbrand.com/2009/04/21/anz-new-logo/ Lazy journalists are reporting that the re-design cost A$15m. But this is actually the total of what the bank will spend on a new marketing campaign, updating signage etc. Seems fair enough. So it's not...

23 October 2009 /retail Cringeworthy marketing gallery

Get your Sibos photos here!

Still waiting for the press photographer to turn up to your stand for the client handshake shot? Why not take your own pics and post them to the Sibos Community photos section on Finextra. https://www.finextra.com/community/ Just sign in to Finextra Community (or request to join, if not already a member) and click on My Pictures in the top nav bar....

14 September 2009 /sibos Finextra@Sibos

Swift does Dragon's Den with Innotribe

Swift's new Innotribe section of the Sibos agenda has evolved into an interesting experiment in collaboration and potentially commercialisation. Presentations at the opening sessions at the SibosLabs set the scene on a number of background topics. And group leaders then pitched to the audience to get involved in workshops over the course of Sibos ...

14 September 2009 /sibos Innovation in Financial Services

Suspicious fire at liquidated bank

There's an interesting news snippet from Jakarta today about a fire at IFI Bank, which was liquidated by Indonesia's central bank in April. It's slightly suspicious, but not in the sense of the blaze being started deliberately. Firefighters say it was caused by a short circuit in a paper shredder, which caused a nearby sofa to catch alight. I don'...

15 June 2009 /security Information Security

Judge warns bank on record retention

The full text of the Job vs Halifax judgement makes for interesting reading. Both claimant and defendant called some well qualified witnesses, from Cambridge University and APACS. The bank produced a transaction log that it says indicated Job's disputed transactions were handled according to the Chip and PIN process, and did not default to a magnet...

05 June 2009 /security /payments Transaction Fraud Systems and Analysis

Innovation in wholesale payments, beyond e-invoicing

I'm expecting that again this year there will be a lot of talk about e-invoicing at EBAday in Vienna, particularly as the expert group and EPC are working to break down the remaining barriers to widespread adoption (such as these). But beyond just the level playing field for e-invoicing, I'm looking forward to hearing more about what's being done ...

20 April 2009 /payments /wholesale EBAday

Trust me, I'm an expert ...

It' s a line we seem to fall for far too easily, and this is something that scientists say has contributed to the current financial crisis. Studies suggest that the normal mechanisms people use to evaluate risk and reward are not being used when you have an expert telling you what to do. This is backed up by anecdotal evidence that has emerged abo...

24 March 2009 /wholesale Trends in Financial Services

Mobile audio - is it just for music??

I recently started to listen to the audio version of two of my favourite magazines - The Economist and New Scientist, and have been impressed by the convenience and quality. I'm not a fan of the word podcast, and prefer to think of the medium as a new take on traditional radio journalism. So, with that in mind, Finextra has teamed up with the same ...

26 February 2009 Innovation in Financial Services