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Internet users shun online banks

An overwhelming majority of UK Internet users express anxiety about banking online, with few believing the channel can ever be used to forge a meaningful relationship with their bank.

01 March 2001

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Microsoft appoints Belluzo as new president and COO

Microsoft's president and chief operating officer, Bob Herbold is to retire at the age of 58. Herbold will continue to serve in a part-time capacity representing the company in industry, government and customer activities. Rick Belluzzo has been appointed to take his place.

16 February 2001

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Microsoft and Onyx forge CRM partnership

Microsoft and Onyx Software have entered a multi-year global sales, marketing and technology agreement to deliver customer relationship management (CRM) solutions to large global enterprises, beginning with financial services.

31 January 2001

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US Navy pilots pre-pay smart card programme

Chase Manhattan Bank has licensed the Open Transaction Platform from Funge Systems as part of a pilot programme to test the application of pre-paid smart card technology on US Navy ships.

30 January 2001

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World leaders go wireless with AvantGo

Mobile information company AvantGo has teamed up with Compaq, Accenture and Microsoft to provide wireless access to key conference information and applications for delegates at this year's World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

25 January 2001

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Barclays implement Marimba for global software delivery

Barclays Global Investors has chosen Marimba's Castanet product line to streamline the distribution and management of approximately 350 applications to desktop and mobile systems around the world. The bank will roll out Castanet to over 3000 endpoints worldwide including Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, the Netherlands and the UK as part of a planned migration to Windows 2000.

25 January 2001

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Microsoft marks personal finance milestone

Microsoft has added live streaming news webcasts from WebFN and daily analysis from the Industry Standard to its online personal finance site, MSN MoneyCentral.

17 January 2001

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Skandia Life earns e-commerce plaudits

Skandia Life has been awarded 'e-commerce insurance company of the year', by UK newpaper Financial Adviser, the FT title for independent financial advisers (IFA).

11 January 2001

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Nationwide launches Pocket PC bank

The UK's Nationwide Bank has launched Europe's first Internet banking service for personal organisers. The 'Bank Anywhere' service runs on Microsoft's Pocket PC platform and is available over a range of personal digital assistants and mobile phones.

15 December 2000

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Corillian debuts in Europe with Greek bank win

EFG Eurobank Ergasias (Eurobank), the second largest private-sector bank in Greece, has licensed Corillian's Voyager platform to provide a new framework for Internet banking and brokerage services. The deal is an important win for Corillian which recently opened an international office in the UK.

12 December 2000

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Halifax and NCR bring ATMs into line

UK bank Halifax is to use NCR software to provide a development environment for the consistent delivery of products and service across all customer contact points.

29 November 2000

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Fujitsu-ICL previews Windows 2000-based Web ATMs

Fujitsu-ICL Systems has previewed its Series 800 family of ATMs, billed as North America's first, full-scale cash machine to use the Microsoft Windwos 2000 operating system.

28 November 2000

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