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When is 0.1 percent 'Healthy'? - Bank Insults Again

You couldn’t make it up… Not content with insulting me over their loan offers recently (see previous blogs), my bank has now compounded the insult by mailshotting me with an offer to take out an instant access savings account, at the ‘healthy rate’ of 0.2% (which apparently includes a ‘bonus’ of 0.1%). This raises some interesting points: 1) ...

/retail Transaction Banking

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Locks on Cards - And Not Before Time

The Handelsbanken announcement is most welcome. It's interesting how some ideas keep being revisited. I remember, a number of years ago, being involved in a feasibility study for a UK bank that wanted to do something similar. In the end, the technological challenges were too great at that time (and more important things pushed it down the prior...

/retail Online Banking

Matt White

Matt White North America editor at Finextra

Justice department goes phishing

The US Department of Justice has taken a breather from chasing the bad guys to go phishing. According to the AP, the department sent out an e-mail to its own staff purporting to be from the "Thrift Savings Plan Account Coordinator" directing them to a Web site asking for account information. The more security conscious recipients smelled...

/security /retail

Kumar Jm

Kumar Jm Business Consultant at Indian Fortune 500

Corebanking Systems

a) Core Banking Introduction In a nutshell a core banking system is a centralized self contained system that shall have the benefits of performing multiple transaction activities coupled with scalability and performance sturdiness to name a few benefits. The market is currently dominated by more than 30 players who together offer about 50 pro...

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Social lending - back to the roots of banking

Is this crisis the end of social lending? Yes and no. Majority of the social lending services which have been shut down (Prosper and Zopa US, to name the famous ones) were actually more like traditional banks presenting themselves as new kind of financial institutions. Prosper was a bank with a core idea to securitize loans. Zopa US facilitated th...

/payments /retail

Paul Penrose

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

Faster Payments?

The UK's Faster Payments service has taken a critical panning from the BBC. The Corporation's MoneyBox programme claims the system is in "disarray", as banks implement the technology in a disjointed patchwork fashion. Northern Rock, Citibank and Abbey have not started to make same-day payments. The Association for Payments and Clearing ...

/payments /retail

Richard Barr

Richard Barr Principal Associate at Citadel Advantage Ltd.

When does STP cost more than it saves?

We hardly ever question the benefits of STP. And for the most part, STP is really a smart move. It saves on errors, manpower, time and increases profits. What's there not to like about it? Well, you already know that's a trick question on my part because I'm going to answer it myself. STP can become a liability rather than an asset when we become t...

/payments /retail

Paul Penrose

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

Ken Lewis and John Thain: Dumb and dumber

No matter which way you look at it Ken Lewis's bail-out of Merrill Lynch looks increasingly wrong-headed. John Thain - the man who sold the pony to Lewis - has now fallen on his sword after Merrill posted more than $15 billion in surprise losses just three weeks ago. The shock revelation followed the disclosure of early bonus pay-outs to Merrill st...

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When Bonuses Work...

...even for Northern Rock employees. There was an interesting debate on Question Time last night about the bonuses that are to be paid to Northern Rock staff. The views spanned the spectrum, from one delegate who said bonus schemes shouldn’t exist at all – anywhere - to a part-justification of the process. I say ‘part-justification’ because the...

/regulation /retail Transaction Banking

Elton Cane

Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia

The joy of transaction-based recurring revenue

Intelligent Environments appears to have lived up to the first part of its name with the revenue model it has in place with a growing number of customers. Not only does it take a small one-off fee each time a consumer submits an application online for one of its customers' card or bank account products, but the company also takes an annual fee for ...

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