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Steve Psaltis - Rule Financial - London | 26/06/2012 | 3426 views | 1 comment

Blackberry 10 means business!

Prior to attending the BB10 Jam conference in London on 14th June, I had started to think that perhaps there was scope for RIM to re-establish themselves as the number one mobile platform choice for the banking sector. However, judging by the statistics they presented at the conference, they never actually stopped being the number one choice! RIM ... Tags: Mobile & online, Retail banking

Steve Psaltis - Rule Financial - London | 07/03/2012 | 2051 views | 4 comments

Tablets to surge in banking - one platform to rule them all

There’s a tablet platform coming that will change the way that the front, middle and back-office of banks conduct their daily activities. The days of traders, collateral optimisers and the back-office being tied to their chairs will soon be a thing of the past. The preferred communication method will no longer be email, but will evolve to a ... Tags: Mobile & online, Wholesale banking

Steve Psaltis - Rule Financial - London | 01/03/2012 | 2281 views

Smartphone wars in the City

The release of RIM's Blackberry Playbook OS 2.0 last week fired a warning shot to Apple that the enterprise tablet war is wide open. Ironically, having dominated the smartphone market in the enterprise space, RIM is now defending the territory it once pioneered. Following last year's well publicised global blackout, RIM also has to work even harde... Tags: Mobile & online, Risk & regulation

Steve Psaltis - Rule Financial - London | 21/02/2012 | 2399 views

Banking on the Blackberry Playbook OS 2.0

The growing adoption of iPads by financial services companies has unnerved RIM, the makers of Blackberry smartphones and traditionally the sector’s choice for mobile communications devices. For RIM to dominate the tablets market much the same way it has the smartphone space, and after a disappointing 2011 launch of the first Blackberry Playb... Tags: Mobile & online, Wholesale banking