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Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven
If you've been waiting for news regarding Coin Card, then you've got a longer wait than expected. Coin launched with HUGE fanfare in November of 2013, promising to revolutionize your credit card by allowing you to combine up to 6 cards in one bluetooth enabled device. Launched on the same day as the revamped Google Wallet, Coin Card stole the show...
22 August 2014 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Whether it is Bank of Queensland with their Hipster Branch launch, Citi's famed Apple-Store Branches, NAB's Crowd concept, Unicredit "Branch of the Future" in Italy and Bulgaria, PNC's Tellerless Branches, smaller regional players like South Shore Bank and Conestoga BankWerx, or the launch of Video-Interactive Teller's for TEB, Ion B...
05 August 2014 /retail Innovation in Financial Services
Last night as I got home from a Korean-town dinner in NYC with the Moven management team, I got a message via Facebook from Rob Findlay (Next Bank) about a recently launched Youtube video supposedly promoting the upcoming revamped TSB website - sort of a trailer for the future launch and the accompanying news story on Finextra hailing their 'resp...
17 July 2014 Online Banking
Square's recent troubles are not exactly a secret. Wall Street Journal published a detailed analysis on the 21st of April this year, detailing Square's financial troubles and their rapidly shrinking cash position. Square took on a $100m debt financing option earlier this year, but even with that option, WSJ and The Verge reported that they only h...
13 May 2014 /payments Finance 2.0
In a recent UN/ICAO commissioned survey on the use of signatures in passports, a number of countries including the UK recommended phasing out the long held practice because it was no longer deemed of practical use. More significantly, however, is the emerging trend that has some parents, educators and lawmakers espousing their concern – when aske...
05 May 2014 /retail Innovation in Financial Services
I was in India a few weeks ago speaking to the Reserve Bank and most of the primary Retail Banks about the impact of mobile and social media on the industry there. The new RBI Governor in India, Raghuram Rajan, has ruffled some feathers with his unconventional approach thus far, but he has his work cut out for him with a very traditional market, w...
28 January 2014 /regulation /retail Innovation in Financial Services
If any of you watch my Twitter feeds, Facebook or Google+ posts or those of the financial services crowd at large, it is highly likely that you will have seen a post I authored on Huffington Post on Friday. The post details my experience with HSBC Business Banking after they closed my business account without notifying me. The first I knew of ...
02 December 2013 /wholesale Innovation in Financial Services
Credit cards are expensive. According to BankRate.com the average US annual percentage rate (APR) charges on credit cards is 15.35%[1], but that’s down in recent years. During the financial crisis some US-based credit card APRs went as high as 39.6%[2] as banks like Bank of American tried to compensate for increasing risk, or unwind high-risk cre...
04 November 2013 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Mobile use is exploding in the banking scene. If you are a retail bank today in the developed world and you don’t have an app for your customers, you are increasingly becoming an exception. Certainly almost every bank in the world today has some form of Internet website and Internet banking capability. However, for most banks, the web and mobile a...
29 October 2013 /retail Innovation in Financial Services
Ok, so if you think we're done with the whole "when is a mobile payment a payment" argument, think again. The reality is that the biggest evolution in payments is not about Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Square or faster payments, but it is about context and simplicity, and that's where the mobile and other technologies are leading us. You are ...
11 October 2013 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
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