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Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
Twitter seems to be coming into its own as a medium for reporting fast-moving events. Up-to-the-minute citizen reportage on the G20 protest rally can be found here. This just in: Protestors urinating in the Royal Bank of Scotland. 'Well, we do own it', says one tweet. More coverage from the FT's team at http://twitter.com/g20ft. 'Make love, not l...
01 April 2009 /retail /wholesale Finance 2.0
Retired Member
I have reason to believe there are one or two US retailers with financial services squarely in their sights, and are looking to pull a Tesco in the US. Some retailers might just score a bulls-eye with their recession resistant business model and large store networks. I see there have been some tentative attempts by Carphone et al. Having a few hun...
01 April 2009 /payments /retail Whatever...
The corporate culture of growth at any cost during the past decade has exposed fundamental flaws in the way banks conducted their business and in particular how they managed it. As such, the financial crisis has highlighted the need for dramatic changes and a move towards an enterprise-wide approach to risk management. While banks may have had p...
30 March 2009 /regulation /retail
Alex Noble Account Director at McAfee
It's always sad to see bad news on jobs and HSBC's announcement last week was no exception. The BBC report is that while the bank says that 1,200 jobs are at risk, the unions are talking about up to 3,000 jobs potentially going. The jobs will go at an operation centre in Leamington Spa, (for about 280 positions), London will loose about 150 jobs ...
30 March 2009 /retail
So, everyone's a'flutter over Twitter? I wouldn't count on it. Here at Finextra we set up our own Twitter feed last year, just as an experiment. To set the ball rolling, we identified all Community members with a Twitter account and started following them. Over the past couple of months there's been a noticeable drop-off in tweets from individuals...
27 March 2009 /retail /wholesale Finance 2.0
Ed Daniel Senior Consultant, getting old you know ;-) at esdaniel.com
Noting the news last night it's not a great time to be associated with banking and as such the professional community will seek solace amongst its members. So, during this period of kinship and support perhaps some managers will study how the renewed trust in peers and colleagues can be put to good use. Transparency creates trust, trust facilitates...
26 March 2009 /retail Futuristic Banking
Public anger at banking excess seems to be boiling over into direct action and mob rule. Following the public hanging of a banking effigy at a rally in Marble Arch and the bus tours of AIG executive mansions organised by US activist groups, the latest person in the firing line is former RBS boss Sir Fred Goodwin. Police in Scotland are calling fo...
25 March 2009 /retail /wholesale Whatever...
I suspect that many people are like me in not believing we are in a deflationary situation. It is complete cobblers and should not be influencing economic policy. The principal reason why the RPI is dropping into negative territory is that interest rates have been destroyed in recent months. This allegedly reduces the cost of living, which is rub...
24 March 2009 /retail Trends in Financial Services
Wow, this is a very cutting-edge new innovation from ING Netherlands. My android cellphone shows me the available ATMs in my sight, by pointing the camera of the phone to any direction. ATM markers are added to the actual camera image, so I know which way to go. The concept of processing the real environment image and react somehow is there since ...
23 March 2009 /retail Futuristic Banking
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
Up until now, identity thieves have been hunting elephants. But that may soon change. According to this study, small to medium size businesses (SMB's) are the criminal hackers next target. This should come as no surprise, as large enterprise networks have gradually become better at defending themselves. Over the past few years, criminal hacker
20 March 2009 /security /retail
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