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Paul Penrose

ING boss gets personal online

Let’s face it – business videos and podcasts on the Web are a real turn-off. The medium itself has plenty of potential – and at Finextra we’ll be looking to produce more audio/video content over the...

31 Jan 2007
Video extravaganza
Paul Penrose

No change for interchange

Red faces at the Polish Competition Authority after the European Commission backed down on threats to outlaw credit card interchange fees on retail transactions. (EC abandons retailers and backs down...

31 Jan 2007
EBAday
Paul Penrose

Investors goggle-eyed at Frankfurt exchange

News from the front-line of the electronic trading revolution: Deutsche Börse is to spend EUR4 billion on refurbishing its trading floor! The Frankfurt-based exchange is one of only two bourses in Eu...

30 Jan 2007
Paul Penrose

Citi to bring Egg back to the boil

Muted cheers across the City after UK insurer Prudential eventually offloaded its loss-making Internet banking operation Egg to Citigroup for £575 million (Prudential sells Egg to Citigroup). The pri...

29 Jan 2007
Finextra50 fintech index
Paul Penrose

Microsoft micropayments

Further to my recent musings on Microsoft Points (The Virtual Bank of Microsoft), Dow Jones reports on CNN that Microsoft boss Bill Gates has been looking into the possibility of developing an online...

29 Jan 2007
Trends in Financial Services
Paul Penrose

Funny money

Online universe Second Life has been lauded by the serious business press as a glittering land of opportunity, a rapidly-expanding economy where fortunes can be made by game-players buying and selling...

26 Jan 2007
Paul Penrose

The virtual Bank of Microsoft

Is Microsoft trying to create its own online currency? It’s an issue worthy of consideration, following the Zune music player release late last year. Consumers wanting to buy and download songs from t...

25 Jan 2007
Paul Penrose

Moving the deckchairs at CSFI

So farewell then David Lascelles, the former banking editor of the Financial Times who co-founded respected City think tank The Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation with Andrew Hilton in 1993....

23 Jan 2007

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