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Andy Agnew

Smart Solutions Architect at Smart Traffic City

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Bio Promoting a smart, data driven approach to traffic management of driverless vehicles in cities. Career History Retired after 40 years of creating systems for financial services, government and industry.

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Cards overtake cash for consumer payments in Australia

Good point. It also says that the survey took place in 2006 i.e. card payments overtook cash some time between 2003 anxd 2006. Australia certainly needs the reforms announced in May to take effect soon. Otherwise when card payments become virtual payments they will simply by-pass the banking system.

01 Aug 2017 Reply Read article

RBS cuts hundreds of UK tech jobs

Unfortunately a "Smaller, Simpler Bank" has no place for anything new or different nor for dealing with unwieldy legacy, only more of the same.

15 May 2017 Reply Read article

Ogden takes the wraps off ClearBank

ClearBank is going to really shake things up by providing modern services in a part of the banking system that has been too slow to change. It will be an enabler for other fintech innovation as well.

01 Mar 2017 Reply Read article

Link rethinks business model as banks balk at ATM running costs

UK Branch closures over the next year or two will significantly increase the cost of cash handling in the remaining branches for the same reason. Sooner or later a High St bank will stop accepting cash and this will cause a stampede to get out. The government may step in and force some banks to keep offering a cash service and even subsidise it but becoming a cashless society appears inevitable.

27 Jan 2017 Reply Read article