Innovation in Financial Services

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Group founded 12 Nov 2007
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A discussion of trends in innovation management within financial institutions, and the key processes, technology and cultural shifts driving innovation.

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John Clarke

Multi-Channel Commerce. Do I need to support it?

Increase in online sales channels The number of online sales channels is increasing. A couple of years ago, being online meant having a web site, but the last two years have seen the development of at...

13 May 2011
Bo Harald

IT Life cycles - part 2 video

http://streams.metropolia.fi/old/MultimediaTech2010/bo_harald_2/ all the way to e-invoicing..

10 May 2011
Brett King

Why Apple must launch NFC in the iPhone 5

On 14th of March 2011, The Independent newspaper from the UK published an article suggesting that the iPhone 5 would not include Near-Field Communication (NFC) capability. A few days later on the 1

09 May 2011
Bo Harald

What did I write - you read - updated

On EU: Questions European Tax Payers should ask: 7275 times!! https://www.finextra.com/blogs/fullblog.aspx?blogid=2815 A digital Single Market – why and how?: 2829 https://www.finextra.com/blogs

04 May 2011
Retired Member

Fraudulent Wires - Need for Customer Payment Profile

FBI's recent report states that between March 2010 and April 2011, the FBI identified twenty incidents in which the online banking credentials of small-to-medium sized U.S. businesses were compromise...

03 May 2011
Bo Harald

Short video re e-invoicing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6wNEVXe6ZQ

02 May 2011
Retired Member

Payments Alone May Not Pay the Bills

I came across an enterprising man who worked as a driver and doubled up as the neighborhood milkman. In the initial months, he found himself collecting and carrying large amounts of money on a daily b...

30 Apr 2011
Tim Tyler

Coupons and Payments - What Do We Have To Lose?

Electronic coupons appear to be all the rage at the moment, with the rush to the front seemingly being led by Groupon. Throwing themselves in to the fight now are Google (with Google Offers) and Face

26 Apr 2011
Bo Harald

ATM transactions heading south

Accelerating decline in use of cash clearly reflected here and in card transaction statistics in Finland (even without costs being visibly charged for ATM withdrawals..). Good news for all. On EU leve...

24 Apr 2011
Bo Harald

e-invoicing ice hockey stick

It took time to get it going - but this is looking good (statistics covers only Finvoice - similar growth in other local standards). In a couple of years time paper or e-mailed PDF invoices will be as...

24 Apr 2011
Bo Harald

e-id services and e-commerce payments 2010 in Finland

Excellent growth figures - on EU levels the e-id volume would be 1,5bn. All public sector id-transactions are presently done by banks. This is extremely cost efficient (economy of reuse) and naturally...

24 Apr 2011
Bo Harald

Amazing e-banking growth - again

I would have thought the transaction growth would have petered out in Finland - when most customers have used it for years - and now there are 5,2m e-banking contracts (a population of 5,4m and some p...

24 Apr 2011

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