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A community for discussing the application of Web 2.0 technologies to financial services.
With the massive activity in the mobile Ad space arena at the moment, I’m amazed that there is so little focus on this by Bank marketing teams. It shows a level of ignorance that is staggering. The
Community banks and credit unions have been around since the mid 1800s. Unlike most commercial banks which exist as publicly listed companies, credit unions and community banks are normally not-for-pr...
Last week my esteemed colleague Robert Siciliano blogged about the Dangers of Facebook. This was in response to collective pressure on Facebook's privacy policies and the various media coverage relate...
First day of EBA Day in Luxemburg, e-invoicing had been coined to the audiences. The event held on right after the release of EBA and Innopay’s E-invoicing 2010 European Market Guide report. The first...
Interesting comment in FX week (sorry password required) about the problems with some banks FX feeds… “Banks must improve their foreign exchange pricing and trading infrastructure or risk losing orde...
Research by Greenwich Associates (released in March 2010) states that around the world, multi-bank electronic trading platforms captured about 40% of overall FX trading volume in 2008-2009 and single...
WallStreet & Technology touches on an interesting topic relating to last weeks near 1,000 point fall in the Dow in late US trading. Data released by Gomez Inc (see chart at end of article), shows...
James Gardner did a great post on his blog today that got me thinking. Why is it so hard to get Mobile banking and social media on the minds of the top bankers today? The iPad has sold over 1 mill
As President Obama was gearing up last month to push further reforms for the finance sector through congress, the sector lobbyists were also gearing up for a battle of PR wits to try to prevent chang...
EuroMoney has just released the results of the 2010 FX Survey (sorry it’s subscription based). 2010 FX Share Top 10 ranking (2009) 1. Deutsche Bank (1) 2. UBS (2) 3. Barclays Capital (3) 4. Citi (5)...
An interesting comment in today’s FX Week, touches on the real-world challenges banks face when designing a new single bank platform. Banks want to deliver a really great trading application to clien...
What’s so great about internalising FX flows? In a recent article called separating the men from the boys in global FX I touched on internalisation of FX flow. I’ve had a lot of feedback on this, a