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Retired Member
On Tuesday I chaired the Future of Mobile Banking conference held in London. It was a great event, with a wide variety of highly qualified speakers and some very smart debate on topics including mobile banking, usability, innovation, and m-payments. What made the conference so compelling was that it came at a particularly interesting time. Mobile ...
31 May 2012 /retail Finance 2.0
Hans Tesselaar Executive Director at BIAN
In Europe, the open standards movement is gaining momentum. It is increasingly accepted that standards collaboration increases organisational interoperability, ensuring that different systems can communicate effectively, while dramatically reducing IT spend on costly integration. In the Asian-Pacific region, however, we have yet to see this move...
30 May 2012 /retail
Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven
I've been recently debating with bankers and credit union executives on the core banking proposition they offer to new prospects. One of the realizations that led me to this was some recent research released by Aite Group around the 'debanked' generation (Feb, 2012). In March 2011, I released a YouTube Video discussing the same segment of customer...
29 May 2012 /payments /retail Finance 2.0
Nick Ogden Chairman at Ogden Research
There is certainly a lot of focus in the UK on small businesses at the moment. Given the massive potential for small businesses to plug the hole in the UK economy, it is unsurprising that the failures of high street banks to provide affordable loans has attracted both questioning and anger. It seems interesting then that there has been so little ...
28 May 2012 /retail Innovation in Financial Services
This is a very exciting campaign launched by the Commonwealth Bank in Australia. After some weeks of teaser posters around the country and some art installations etc with the big letters CAN'T on them, they have launched a campaign today with a significant technology flavour, emphasising real time transfers and merchant services, their mobile pay...
27 May 2012 /retail
Having played this game since Lynx browser and dialup apana, its great to see some milestones in banking hit over the last month or two. MILESTONE Bank of America with their 10 million users shows that Internet banking should be considered (for now) the primary channel for bank interaction with the customer. MILLSTONE Those of us who remember tryi...
25 May 2012 /retail
The incoming head of the financial regulator has taken customers and their banks to task for perpetuating the myth of free banking as discussed in this BBC Business Article. Andrew Bailey says banks need to tear away the curtain and reveal the hidden costs of everyday banking. Transparency is laudable but it will be extremely hard for banks to m...
24 May 2012 /retail
Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions
Electronic delivery of bills and statements promises to save stationery, printing and postage costs for banks, mobile network operators, municipalities / boroughs, utilities and other types of billers. Attracted by the cost savings potential, a large number of billers have adopted eBilling / eStatements technology in recent times. To actually real...
24 May 2012 /retail /wholesale
Matt White North America editor at Finextra
That was the verdict of comedian Al Murray, on Twitter, when Metro Bank made a song-and-dance to celebrate the opening of its 12th branch this weekend in Chiswick. 'I have actually crossed the road to avoid the toe curling god awful pisspoor balloon waving music blaring launch of my local Metro bank' said Murray on Friday before sharing a picture ...
21 May 2012 /retail Cringeworthy marketing gallery
Speculation has been rife over who could be the next Governor of the Bank of England. Recently the Guardian gave us a glimpse of who the potential candidates could be. Any of the eight figures printed could easily become the most powerful and important official in the UK. With all their backgrounds steeped (rightly) in banking experience, the i...
16 May 2012 /retail
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