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Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven
In the Times business section in the UK today, Andrew Haldane, the Financial Stability Director for the Bank of England was quoted as suggesting that we are entering a phase where the banking sector is being reshaped as a result of technology. Haldane pointed to innovations like Kiva, P2P and social collaboration as some of the forces effecting th...
16 March 2012 /payments /retail Innovation in Financial Services
The new iPad just launched to the usual hype, anticipation and fanfare. Every time a new Apple product comes off the assembly line, it gets put under the biggest magnifying glass imaginable as crowds of onlookers parse the announcement with scholarly intensity, hoping to piece together a picture of what might emerge and what the implications for t...
08 March 2012 /retail Innovation in Financial Services
With recent news that Barclays Pin-git (or is it Ping-it) has had 120,000 downloads in 5 days, that Square has 1m merchants on their payments platform (1/8th of all US card merchants/retailers) and Starbucks is doing 25% of it's North American payments via a cardless App - it seems like Mobile Payments are taking off like the H1N1 virus. The inter...
23 February 2012 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
Well, I see the Facebook/Twitter hysteria is at fever pitch again. There's the concern around market events like the fake Sina Weibo post stating that Kim Jong Un had been assasinated, apparently corroborated by the evidence of a cavalcade of black limosuines arriving at the North Korean embassy in Beijing around the same time. This started in Chi...
15 February 2012 /regulation Innovation in Financial Services
The debate about NFC and mobile payments rages on. There's questions over which handset platform to support, which devices are certified, the lack of real NFC standards, how to enable the secure component on the various cellular networks and so forth? To a novice this all sounds very complex? Shouldn't we worry about adoption rates? When will mobi...
12 February 2012 /payments Innovation in Financial Services
There's a great deal of discussion and debate around what will ultimately happen to banking as a result of the massive changes in connectivity, utility, mobility and customer experience taking place right now. One thing is for sure, the world is changing. We see PayPal owning online payments, with others like Stripe hot on their tails. Square is at...
01 February 2012 /retail Innovation in Financial Services
The PROTECT IP Act (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011), is a proposed law with the stated goal of giving the US government and copyright holders additional tools to curb access to "rogue websites dedicated to infringing or counterfeit goods", especially those registered o...
18 January 2012 /regulation
I'm starting to hear of some very significant digital and multi-channel budgets being put in place by many of the leading retail banking brands in 2012. It's about time! While I won't name names or budgets, I've heard of mid-sized banks dedicating more than $50m to Internet, mobile and social-media this year, and large banks in the range of many hu...
16 January 2012 /retail Innovation in Financial Services
There has been a 25% decline in the total mail volume for the USPS (United States Postal Service) from 2006-2011, resulting in a $5.1 Billion loss in 2011 alone. Since 2007 the USPS has been unable to cover its annual budget, 80 percent of which goes to salaries and benefits. In contrast, 43 percent of FedEx's (FDX) budget and 61 percent of United...
22 December 2011 /regulation /retail Innovation in Financial Services
No one could doubt that peer-to-peer lending (or P2P Lending) has landed big time in 2010, but it looks as if the best is just about to come. The biggest US P2P lender, Lending Club, will issue more than $250 million in loans this year – greater than the last four years combined – for a total of nearly $450 million since inception. Their last $10...
14 December 2011 /retail Finance 2.0
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