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Elizabeth Lumley

'We're a bank. We don't suck' - The Twitterview Transcript

Finextra held court for a much viewed Twitterview yesterday with soon-to-be launched US retail bank, banksimple. Once launched, banksimple plan to offer individual deposits to US customers as well as ...

18 Mar 2010
Social Banks
Robert Siciliano

Bridal Scam Shows How Vulnerable We Are

There are few more nuttier earthlings than the Bridezillas. Lovely women who go bonkers within 365 days of a wedding date. I blame the whole thing on Walt Disney. The groom to-be generally wants it o...

18 Mar 2010
A Finextra Member

House prices about to crash

At a recent roundtable of top economists at the Long Finance Group together with a think tank of leading City professionals, the over whelming view was that house prices were certain to crash. Timing ...

18 Mar 2010
Uri Rivner

Typo

Last week was recovery from RSA Conference, which was awesome. Cybercrime and Cloud were the main two themes, and I provided my Dark Cloud: Cybercriminals get Corporate Aware talk which draws upon bot...

18 Mar 2010
Innovation in Financial Services
Elizabeth Lumley

'Branches are an anachronism' The banksimple Twitterview

Finextra held court for a much viewed Twitterview yesterday with soon-to-be launched US retail bank, banksimple. Once launched, banksimple plan to offer individual deposits to US customers as well as...

18 Mar 2010
Social Banks
A Finextra Member

Smart Routing: The Sat Nav of the Trading World

A couple of people have pointed out to me that the dial seems to be really moving now in terms of fragmentation across the Nordic region. A quick look shows that Stockholm’s share of the benchmark S30...

17 Mar 2010
Anthony Cossey

iPhone and iTunes Security

I don't own an iPhone, the Blackberry Bold suits best the way i work on the move, however i have been looking into various aspects of the iPhone as a development platform. I am a little concerned abou...

17 Mar 2010
Bo Harald

e-Invoicing leap in Russia

“Future of E-Invoicing in Russia” took place in Moscow recently. The following was reported: “· Necessary legal aspects must be prepared for e-Invoicing during the first half of 2010 (Russian governme...

16 Mar 2010
Innovation in Financial Services
A Finextra Member

Sanctions screening, tackling the regulatory minefield

Increasing criminal and terrorist activity, combined with a highly regulated environment, is evidence that financial crime is a persistent, global problem. In banking, a similar story is playing out w...

16 Mar 2010
A Finextra Member

It's called hype for a reason

I love articles like this that are really only interesting for their "Hype" value. Facebook, while an impressive social networking site is far from a bank. The skills and business value of r...

16 Mar 2010
Elizabeth Lumley

Wow, cool tech - but does it pass the 'bum' test?

I'm been writing (and now video-ing and webcasting) about the non-cool side of technology for 16 years. (sorry, guys I love single dealer portals and real-time messages buses too, but they're not maki...

15 Mar 2010
Elizabeth Lumley

What is your digital persona?

At the Digital Money Forum last week, Kosta Peric of Swift mentioned a project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where they seek to critique data mining techniques to see how the web 'see...

15 Mar 2010
Data Management 101

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