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Elton Cane

Are bank tellers an endangered species?

When I recently spoke to a young family acquaintance who had taken a job as a bank teller, it got me thinking about the changing nature of that role, and its future prospects. Particularly as I recall...

06 Dec 2013
Future Finance
Elton Cane

P2P lending in Australia

It's been stop-start, but there are signs of growth. Reading Simon Strong's Finextra blog post about growing overheads as P2P lenders mature and become more regulated, and Dan Barnes' post about the ...

27 Nov 2013
Future Finance
Elton Cane

Revisiting Bitcoin - initial experience and questions

I first read about Bitcoin a number of years ago, and was intrigued. I scanned Satoshi Nakamoto's initial whitepaper that kicked it all off, and looked into the burgeoning scene emerging around Bitcoi...

14 Nov 2013
Future Finance
Elton Cane

It's hard to pick a winner in the future of payments

PayPal has been doing a fair bit of engagement over the past 5 years with its burgeoning developer community and reaching out to start-ups, as you would expect from any mature, successful Silicon Vall...

06 Nov 2013
Future Finance
Elton Cane

Chinese banks happy with 12-year-old browser

PCs are the forgotten platform for Chinese banks, who are focusing development efforts on the mobile channel and leaving desktop users reliant on Internet Explorer 6. For anyone involved in web devel...

23 Oct 2013
Future Finance
Elton Cane

Sometimes you've got to force convenience on people.

I've got a confession to make. I still sign my signature with a pen when I use my credit card. I don't have to, and I really shouldn't. I've been writing about technology, banking and payments on and ...

18 Oct 2013
Future Finance
Elton Cane

Is that a worm in my ATM?

When ATM vendors got behind Windows XP as a replacement for IBM’s OS/2 as it neared the end of its shelf life 10 years ago, there was a predictable flurry of concern. And instinctively, the concerns m...

11 Oct 2013
Future Finance
Elton Cane

Aussie real-time payments gaining momentum

It’s going to be a busy few years ahead for payments transformation in Australia. The announcement last week that EFTPOS, the electronic point of sale debit card network, was moving away from bilatera...

07 Oct 2013
Future Finance
Elton Cane

10 years of mobile banking - what's changed?

Is it just me, or does mobile banking seem to perpetually be the next big thing? Maybe it's because I remember how underwhelmed I was by the first generation of WAP browsers on mobile phones when tryi...

12 Apr 2010
Innovation in Financial Services
Elton Cane

Banks accept Dubai assassins' stolen IDs

Quite a few countries around the world had passports of their citizens copied as part of the assassination of Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. While the photos disemminated by the media were undoubt...

01 Mar 2010
Information Security
Elton Cane

Another ill-considered bank logo

ANZ have done a rebrand and ditched their blue stripy logo for a blue logo with three blobs. http://thefinancialbrand.com/2009/04/21/anz-new-logo/ Lazy journalists are reporting that the re-design co...

23 Oct 2009
Cringeworthy marketing gallery
Elton Cane

Get your Sibos photos here!

Still waiting for the press photographer to turn up to your stand for the client handshake shot? Why not take your own pics and post them to the Sibos Community photos section on Finextra. https://www...

14 Sep 2009
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