477 Results from 2007
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
Registration for Swift's annual conference and exhibition, Sibos 2007, officially opens today. Taking place in Boston, US, from 1 to 5 October 2007, the theme of this year's event is 'Gaining momentum'. Interesting to see that Swift has dealt with a long-standing beef from exhibitors and provided open access to the conference sessions for all par...
19 March 2007 /payments /wholesale Finextra@Sibos
Retired Member
I've been working on the EBAday site at www.ebaday.com and noticed for some reason I keep mistyping the URL when I forward links to colleagues. As it happens, the subject matter on www.ebayday.com is somewhat different so they usually spot that I've made an error rather than assuming I've departed a little from the script. These days the sheer num...
19 March 2007
Zopa beefs up the management strucuture with a seasoned expert in the unsecured field appointed as Global CEO. With $34 million raised now, and the appointment of this position, this may be signalling that they are getting closer to US opening.
19 March 2007 Trends in Financial Services
Finextra, in common with much of the financial press has covered the issue of bank charges in depth and because of the press coverage I conducted my own investigation this weekend and was surprised to discover that my bank, the Alliance & Leicester, has charged me over 1,500 pounds in the last 2 years for overdraft, bounced payments and intere...
19 March 2007 /payments /retail Trends in Financial Services
Shares in Lloyds TSB have firmed up on weekend reports that UK ATM network operator Link has emerged as the frontrunner to buy the bank's share registration arm. Link, backed by US buy-out firm Bain Capital, is leading a short list of about four trade and private-equity suitors for Lloyds TSB Registrars, according to this report in the Sunday Time...
19 March 2007 /payments /retail Finextra50 fintech index
Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia
The business pages over the weekend featured coverage of the merger talks between Barclays and ABN AMRO. Whether or not Barclays succeeds, the pressure from hedge fund investors and the number of other suitors interested in parts of the Dutch bank’s global business means that a break-up of the group is increasingly likely, though not certain. But...
19 March 2007 /retail /wholesale Trends in Financial Services
Peter Roberts asked earlier: Are all retail banks evil? The UK’s banks have had a lot of bad press lately. From gross – and it seems illegal – overcharging to a succession of mis-selling scandals, the banks have not done much to endear themselves with their customers. But how do they stand up against their non-banking competitors in the retail se...
16 March 2007 /retail
Steve Ellis Founder at Finextra Research
Presumably these little guys were using the dine and dash payment free method.
16 March 2007 /payments
Finextra received some interesting feedback from a reader today about this story, which covered NAB considering further Indian outsourcing. Our reader pointed out that with Maoist insurgents having slaughtered 40 Indian policemen this week, moving operations there now requires a hard second look. “Forget the weather issues, training, infrastruct...
16 March 2007 /regulation Trends in Financial Services
I confess I was a little shocked by the revelation that UK banks had dumped customer data in bins and Chris Skinner's blog was an interesting read. I was disappointed to see the Co-operative bank listed. I expected better. They may have messed up in this regard, but I actually moved to the Co-op bank's Smile.co.uk solely on the basis of their et...
15 March 2007 /security /retail
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