1205 Results from 2008
Sriram Natarajan Risk Dog at Credit Risk Fraud Cards Professional
Well, Blogs and Social media have made terrific inroads into our lives. This conference promises to be interesting. Check out: http://www.icwsm.org/2008/index.shtml Shows how important these channels are going to be and how much they are likely to influence many business decisions.
03 April 2008 /regulation
Retired Member
I look around and see a lot of money in the payments business, both to be made and being invested. It's obvious we aren't seeing the killer application out there yet but the market is heating up. I see KKR's move into payments through First Data and Western Union as having some potentially big upside. It may be the hedge against any potential loss...
03 April 2008 /payments /retail Futuristic Banking
The Mail app on the Mac comes with an RSS feed entitled Apple hot news which as you might expect is full of feel-good, brainwashing nonsense about all things Apple. Some of it's interesting - for example in a consumer survey by Changewave - 35 per cent of respondents who plan to buy a smartphone in the coming quarter already want to purchase an i...
03 April 2008 Cringeworthy marketing gallery
Recently Steve Ellis asked why more banks aren't stepping up to the challenge of social media. It's true, few banks seem willing to embrace social media and other Web 2.0 tools, but there are a few innovators taking the first steps in Australia. Bryan Inch is one of the few Australian bankers blogging regularly to customers. As head of financial ...
03 April 2008 Finance 2.0
Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia
Fair Isaac is the technology company most damaged by the subprime crisis. In fact some banks, such as HSBC Finance, have said its ubiquitous FICO credit scoring system contributed to the problem by being "ineffective" in predicting behaviour during a period of aggressive lending and low interest rates. I don't know the FICO system well
02 April 2008 /regulation /retail Finextra50 fintech index
Steve Ellis Founder at Finextra Research
I understand the constraints that banks face when trying to embrace different aspects of social media - the regulatory concerns - all the organisational and cultural issues they have to overcome... but even then, even after accepting all those issues, I am amazed more banks haven't stepped up to this challenge. Social media offers huge opportuniti...
02 April 2008 Finance 2.0
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
"A few fundamental tenets of sound financial judgment appear to have been violated." That's the typically understated view of the Bank for International Settlements, in its first official review of the havoc wreaked on the financial markets by wanton abuse of credit risk transfer instruments. The central bankers bank first reviewed the CR...
02 April 2008 /regulation /wholesale Finexpo
This item on the marvellous Music Thing site caught my eye - basically a London boutique investment bank intends to buy electric and classical guitars, mandolins, banjos and amplifiers to form a wacky alternative fund. Not as bonkers as it sounds as Vintage Guitar magazine's price index has averaged returns of 31.6 per cent for the past 17 years, w...
02 April 2008 Whatever...
It looks very much like Microsoft have won over the ISO despite the official announcement being delayed until the 2nd. It hasn't exactly been plain sailing for Microsoft with this - with assorted protests still going on - such as Norway's yes vote and questions about how the BSI here in the UK did such a U turn. So why the fuss? Open Document Fo...
01 April 2008
Dog racing on ice? (The Daily Mirror). Nicolas Sarkozy to be stretched? (the Sun - natch). UBS share price soars on news of massive write-downs? (All financial press - the madness of markets). On April Fool’s day it can sometimes be difficult to distinguish fact from fiction. Nor can you trust newspaper advertising - witness BMW's campaign today pr...
01 April 2008 /retail /wholesale Whatever...
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