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A round-up of interesting videos knocking about on the web. Anything worth watching of interest to Finextra community members.
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The BBC have rolled out a beta version of their iPlayer for the iPhone. And it's stunning. Needs WiFi to work but the picture and sound quality are excellent. I'm just watching Panorama now. I mean - working hard on Finextra - not watching telly all day through the client wifi. Ok - no fintech angle here. I'll get me coat.
07 March 2008
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
Picture the scene. Three UK banking personnel discuss where to locate their new call centre during a brainstorming exercise at a resort in Spain. While two of the bank staff bounce around ideas for various exotic overseas locations, the third chips in with the novel suggestion of locating the call centre in the UK. This is greeted by hoots of deri...
05 March 2008 /retail
Over the course of the past year the Finextra editorial team have been honing their new media skills with a series of face-to-face video interviews with high-profile participants in the fintech community. Satisfied with the way in which the medium enables us to provide a more analytical and animated spin on industry issues, we've decided to pack...
18 February 2008 /retail /wholesale
In a desperate bid to restore its failing fortunes, online broker E*Trade has decided to splash out on two thirty-second advertisements to air during Super Bowl XLI, the coveted prime commercial spot on American TV. E*Trade says it has augmented its 2008 marketing spend by 30% over 2007, as it looks to restore consumer faith in its brand, which ha...
31 January 2008
Seven minutes of pure video hilarity. View it here (shame about the sound).
09 January 2008
Aaron Patzer, founder of money management software start-up Mint, extols the virtue of his patent-pending technology engine in a video posted via prnewswire. The system aggregates all your spending across all your bank accounts and classifies transactions so that you can see at a glance what you're spending your money on and where you can trim any...
21 December 2007 /payments /retail
As principal researcher for Nokia, Jan Chipchase travels around the world looking at how people live their lives and interact with new technology. In this video presentation he turns the spotlight on street-level innovation in mobile communications and commerce, and questions the implications for payments, identity and banking in the future. It's...
20 December 2007 /payments /retail
Catch this hilarious video of Damian McMeekin, ANZ's global head of security having his identity stolen by ABC TV's Julian Morrow at the annual Combatting Identity Fraud summit in Australia earlier this month. As McMeekin is called to give his presentation a wigged-out Morrow beats him to the lectern and starts lecturing the audience on the peril...
25 October 2007 /security /retail
I was sent an e-mail today with the cryptic subject line: Behold sex panther! What could it all mean? Probably a reference to some dodgy video porno site or compromised Web server, I thought. So, naturally, I clicked on the link…and was instantly transported back to the Sibos party at the Boston Convention centre, when six young men with boy b...
11 October 2007
I've had a Palm for years - since they were called PalmPilots in fact - and have yet to find something that's as reliable, lightweight and - well - useful. Enter stage left the iPod touch - lots of the groovy features from the much-hyped iPhone, plus it's an iPod and - well - mine is getting on a bit.... The most interesting thing for me is the ...
10 September 2007
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