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Innovation in Financial Services

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

Pat Carroll

Pat Carroll Founder/Executive Chairman at ValidSoft

Complaining in public

I was interested to hear this week that the US consumer watchdog, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has launched a public website that publishes consumer's complaints about credit cards. Interested because this is a novel approach which attempts to put the customer first and follows a spate of high profile data breaches which have forced the g...

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Is Customer Self-Service a Field of Dreams?

Successful customer self-service strategies require an understanding of both the ever-shifting technology curve, as well as the timeless funadamentals which motivate human behavior. A recent study by Limebridge, an Australian provider of customer experience solutions, highlights both cornerstones to self service success. Limebridge asked 143 cross-...

Brett King

Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven

Facebook Credits gone, but banks need FB more than ever

It was announced yesterday that Facebook is going to start phasing out their Facebook Credits system. If you've been watching my commentary over the last few years, I had entertained Facebook becoming a sort of default currency for the web because of the platform's ubiquity. However, like many things online, users and developers collaborated to cr...

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We Are All Trading Now

The time has come for IT cost reduction through business alignment IT budgets are being drastically cut in all sorts of companies. That's not new. But IT is being asked to deliver the similar sort of service, with probably fewer people and less resources. And on top of that, businesses are rapidly changing to adapt to the new paradigms we are cont...

Martin Bailey

Martin Bailey 

In Confidence

Confidence is a powerful force. A lack of confidence can be devastating. Have enough confidence and you can achieve absolutely anything. All financial markets are underpinned by confidence. Currency relies on the fact that you have confidence in the issuing central bank. Banks rely on your belief that you can get your money back whenever you like. ...

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Pat Carroll

Pat Carroll Founder/Executive Chairman at ValidSoft

Securing our social media identity

We now live in the age dominated by social media networking channels in which people feel compelled to tell the world intimate details of their daily lives. This inevitably leads to a tendency to over-share which can cause a whole range of issues, from burglars being able to target the houses of those on holiday, to others unwittingly sharing thei...

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Feel free to use my bank account

If you are a friend of mine and you think I owe you some money, please feel free to take it from my bank account: 10-11-12 98765432. If you were wrong, I'll sort it out myself after you've taken the money from my account. If you were not a friend, well, I'll sort that out too. Hopefully. Even if that takes me hours. The above may sound strange, yet...

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The Business case for Core Banking Transformation

What is that a bank will be looking for in a core banking transformation programme? Is it only improvement in productivity, efficiency, compliance or something more? This is the question that requires a solid unwavering answer at the very beginning of the project; the business, IT and the management groups must have a clear consistent view. Thi...

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The cost of identity theft equals Google's net income

Every second, 175 fraud attempts take place. Such attempts are no longer about some spotty teenagers having fun - most of the fraud is now committed by well-funded, well-organised (and in some cases - government-sponsored) professional teams. Cybercrime is big business now. Exactly how big is it? Most of online fraud, one way or another, revolves ...

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Barclays PingIt: what's next?

Cardless ATM withdrawals. Now that RBS/NatWest stole the thunder and even such non-bank companies as Ukash offer cardless ATM withdrawals, Barclays has to catch up. Banks have the luxury of being able to add new functions and services to their own ATMs without getting the LINK network involved. It shouldn't take Barclays long to integrate such a &...

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