477 Results from 2007
Retired Member
It’s interesting when you think of the “swings and roundabouts” of markets – everything moves in one direction for a few years, and then swings back in the other direction for another few years. First there’s a trend towards centralisation, and then there’s a trend towards decentralisation, and then we’re off towards centralisation again. ISD gav...
06 June 2007
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
On a mission to get the non-bank perspective on Europe’s progress towards a Single Euro Payments Area I sat in on a couple of fringe conferences sessions at the EBAday show in Rome. Technology vendors I’d spoken to ahead of the show had promised to stir things up a little, and this they duly did, giving their banking paymasters a good kicking in t...
05 June 2007 /retail EBAday
I looked on with horror today at the replacement for the rather nice London 2012 logo. I liked the old one - the Thames sweeping through the 2012. Classy. We're good at logos and design in the UK. The old British Rail logo - still in use. The Tube map. The Finextra logo - a classic. Kidding. Banks of course all have logos - usually quite nifty on...
04 June 2007 Cringeworthy marketing gallery
Blogging from Rome at the annual EBAday conference, a European payments forum organised by Finextra and the Euro Banking Association. Delegates attending the show are looking for guidance and insight as the deadlines loom for the creation of a Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa). Sepa was the big draw at last year's inaugural show in Frankfurt and th...
04 June 2007 /payments /retail EBAday
Standard practice in financial markets has been to look at what is happening in the USA, and then do the same. After all, it’s the biggest market, isn’t it, so they must know best (?!). I spent some time in Toronto last week discussing the changing regulatory environments in the USA, Canada and the EEA. Many Americans who haven’t bothered to find...
04 June 2007
The demands on CIO budgets within the finance sector were supposed to ease this year, however demands of 'the same for less' are as strong as ever. There are several ways to meet this request including rationalisation of the technology portfolio, ensuring architecture is stuck to ( and the right supplier contracts negotiated ), using development a...
01 June 2007 /wholesale
We've made a couple of improvements to the site. You'll see on the home and main listing pages we now have a "most popular communities" listing in the right hand panel. While you're in a community page - you can now see everyone who joined that community via a "view all members" link - again in the right hand panel. Finally - ...
01 June 2007 Finextra site news
Hoss Atri Head of Institutional Partnerships at Elifinty LLC
Hidden in the text of the joint BancoSabadell and Telefonica instant banking announcement I noted quite a novel idea; they have committed to adapt the new 24X7 all -channels banking service to customer requirements, not vice versa! They promise a consistent customer experience across all channels and BancoSabadell is actually regarding this new i...
01 June 2007
How to make friends and influence people: The UK’s Co-operative Bank is promising to donate 20 pence to a children’s charity in return for people who join the bank’s list of friends at its new MySpace page. Now, we all know that buying friends on MySpace is not cool. But the Co-op has cleverly included the pay-per-friend scheme as a natural extensi...
31 May 2007 /retail Trends in Financial Services
........Echoing Chris Skinner's comments, pre-paid is a very attractive market with fantastic potential. Other interesting facts about the taget market of 18 - 34 year old UK folk include: Est. annual spending power of £500 - £35,000Mobile , networked communities/packsBelievers in "Causes"Little interest in politicsActive social lifeT...
30 May 2007 /payments
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