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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
Galvin at Windows is a stunning new French restaurant situated on the 28th floor of the Hilton Hotel on London's Park Lane, and probably has the most stunning restaurant view in the whole of London. A pre or post dinner drink in the bar with its 360 degrees view over London is well worth taking your time over as there is so much to take in. When y...
03 April 2007 After hours
As any politician will tell you, the first 100 days for a new leader are crucial as your audience is receptive, forgiving and open to change; after this though the judgments start to be made and the cracks begin to appear. So what should Campos concentrate on in his first 100 days as the new CEO of SWIFT? What are the challenges the organizati...
03 April 2007 /payments SWIFT Matters
The Internet changed banking forever. It is impossible to consider banking without the functionality, the ease of use and the availability that Internet banking brought to the majority of people WITH bank accounts. This was a silent revolution and became prevalent in only a few years. During the 1990's banks started offering rudimentary banking se...
03 April 2007 /payments
In an interesting twist of daftness it would appear blogging is to be made compulsory at Sony BMG, according to The Register. In the past, people have got in serious hot water after blogging and not quite following the company line, but it seems now that Sony folk in the "creative areas" will be expected to blog or be frowned upon. I wou...
03 April 2007 Cringeworthy marketing gallery
I blogged here last August, that it was predicted Man in the Middle attacks would defeat tokens, and sure enough here we go. "The bank says that its customers opened an email attachment that resulted in a virus being executed on their machines. This virus changed their browsers' behaviour so when they went to open the real ABN Amro online ban...
03 April 2007 /security Trends in Financial Services
Chicago-based Mintel, a global supplier of consumer, product and media intelligence, report a new study that suggests younger consumers are shunning online banking. Conveniently later in the press release, they point out that contactless credit cards will come to the rescue and save the day. My view: companies such as Mintel, particularly those...
29 March 2007 /security Trends in Financial Services
On the BBC World Service yesterday, and today on Silicon.com there comes a new threat to our employment chances - the Blog and other social sites. Apparently HR teams are being encouraged to use the Internet to research applicants for jobs and apparently some of the results are quite interesting as more and more companies use the web to store data....
29 March 2007 /security /regulation Data Protection Act Issues
Interesting blog on the BBC site about Bob Diamond's hefty 22 million earnings for the last year, or rather the comments on the blog are interesting. He's head of Barclays investment banking service which has been doing rather well of late, but is he worth this much? As you might expect, there's a bit of a kerfuffle about it and overall it's ano...
27 March 2007
A cane toad the size of a small dog has been found down under. Nicknamed Toadzilla, the BBC reports that the feisty amphibian weighs in at a tad under a kilo and is the largest ever found in Australia's Northern territory. Or rather - largest so far. . .
27 March 2007 Whatever...
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