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Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia
If ABN Amro hadn't agressively pursued an outsource/offshore strategy over the past two years, would it have been broken-up and sold off much earlier? The answer is probably yes. In its 2006 annual report, the bank claimed that Services IT (responsible for group infrastructure and managing the recent offshore/outsourced arrangements) realised its E...
23 April 2007 /retail /wholesale
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
Hardened Crackberry addicts in the US were forced to go cold turkey last night following an outage at Research in Motion’s network data center in Canada. The sudden blackout left users from Wall Street to Capitol Hill reeling. "I felt like my left arm had been amputated," Joe Shoemaker, communications director for Assistant Senate Democ...
19 April 2007 /retail /wholesale Whatever...
Matt White North America editor at Finextra
The banks certainly seem to be waking up to the potential of going green. In the last couple of days Barclaycard, Fortis and Lloyds have rushed out press releases on the subject. Barclaycard are trumpeting a new green credit card. It is not due to be launched until the summer which is just as well considering they don't seem to have got around to ...
18 April 2007 /retail
HSBC’s annual report has grown so heavy that the UK postal service is reportedly limiting the numbers its postmen may carry to prevent back injuries. The 454-page tome from the proudly carbon-neutral HSBC weighs in at a whopping 1.47kg. It includes a 100-page EU-mandated ‘business review’ and 133 pages of notes explaining its financial statements ...
13 April 2007 /retail /wholesale
Retired Member
Superb piece of research from Chris, detailing Paypals history since inception in Dec 98, with statistics, and more importantly, why they were successful. "In fact, although many of us think PayPal displaces banks, it actually enhances banking services as demonstrated by the bank services behind PayPal. For example, PayPal runs through Wells F...
11 April 2007 /payments /retail Trends in Financial Services
According to a survey, nearly half of Which? members are ‘annoyed’ with their bank’s interest rate. Now there’s a shock…
04 April 2007 /retail
Spam (noun) is commonly defined as an unsolicited commerical message sent indiscriminantly to mass recipients. Is this what HSBC is trialling in the name of marketing? The initial message it is sending out to all activated phones near its branches is certainly unsolicited (though one could argue that if people leave their bluetooth turned on all th...
02 April 2007 /retail Trends in Financial Services
Last week, as Visa USA president and CEO John Coghlan called for closer collaboration between the payment card and mobile industries (see Finextra article here), how this collaboration might work in practice was being discussed at the Digital Money Forum event in London. O2 is one of the network operators currently investigating near-field communic...
02 April 2007 /payments /retail Trends in Financial Services
Wells Fargo launched its first blog Guided by History a year ago today. Initially intended as a short-term experiment, the US bank has been so impressed by the experience that it has since launched three other blogs and created a social media unit to manage its activities in the space. In the studentloanddown, a blog created to plug Wells Fargo ...
30 March 2007 /retail Trends in Financial Services
This urge for City types to bare all in public is getting out of hand. No doubt inspired by the shameless exploits of the Team Bearing Bank tube video strippers, four brash young things from Winterflood are now threatening to get their kit off in return for donations to medical research charity Remedi. The Wins Fab Four, otherwise known as Mark B...
30 March 2007 /retail /wholesale Whatever...
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