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Brett King

Does a banking license provide an exclusive on banking?

Clearly, to be a deposit taking bank and offer products like Mortgages, loans, savings accounts and so forth, it would be easier to have a bank charter. However, today the lines between banks and non-...

04 Jun 2012
Innovation in Financial Services
A Finextra Member

What's the Future of Mobile Banking?

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 mobil...

31 May 2012
Finance 2.0
Hans Tesselaar

Asian banks must consider open IT standards

In Europe, the open standards movement is gaining momentum. It is increasingly accepted that standards collaboration increases organisational interoperability, ensuring that different systems can com...

30 May 2012
Brett King

Bye-bye Checking and Current Account

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 r...

29 May 2012
Finance 2.0
Nick Ogden

Are banks truly supporting UK businesses?

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 failure...

28 May 2012
Innovation in Financial Services
A Finextra Member

Commbank can - a technology and UX driven campaign

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 the...

27 May 2012
A Finextra Member

Milestones and millstones

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 tha...

25 May 2012
A Finextra Member

The Hidden Costs of Banking

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 ...

24 May 2012
Ketharaman Swaminathan

Save Costs But Lose Revenues With eBills And eStatements

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...

24 May 2012
Matt White

f!?kberks

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 t...

21 May 2012
Cringeworthy marketing gallery
A Finextra Member

Next Governor - Embrace Technology!

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 pri...

16 May 2012
A Finextra Member

EU mortgage regulation : a bridge too far for harmonisation?

Harmonisation – outside of music, a term many of us have only encountered in respect to the European Union. In many areas of life in the EU, harmonisation to improve and provide consistent conditions ...

10 May 2012
Financial Services Regulation

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