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A discussion of trends in innovation management within financial institutions, and the key processes, technology and cultural shifts driving innovation.
Money, and wanting more of it, is guaranteed to be dominating the mindshare of most Europeans at the moment. Austerity measures are in place and unemployment is embarrassingly high. Times are tough ...
One of the big buzzes around Sibos this year has been the Bank Payment Obligation (BPO) and the new ICC rules being released this coming April. It seems everyone is holding their breath for the droppi...
One of my pet hates with most mobile banking projects is how security is treated as an adjunct rather than a key scope item. Any product or marketing manager worth their salt knows the number one rea...
As consumers are becoming more comfortable with mobile banking and mobile payments, financial institutions and technology providers are beginning to develop and deploy more innovative solutions with a...
In this exclusive interview about his new book, Bank 3.0, Brett King discusses how change occurring in the banking industry is inevitable, speeding up and disruptive. From the mobile wallet wars to th...
Looking at the recent news stories or even just a quick glance at Finextra, a reader would have no doubt that change is coming to branch banking. What would be perhaps open to debate is the level of ...
Snippets from multistake holder meeting “· The European Council called for actions to encourage the uptake of e-invoicing in the EU and the European Parliament issued a resolution which calls for maki...
There’s a long held premise that branches are great channels for advice, that this is the one differentiation that bank branches provide that the Internets could never compete with. There are three pr...
This week ACI Worldwide released their global survey which finds that a quarter of people across the 17 countries reviewed have been affected by card fraud during the past five years. In particular, ...
Most players have realized by now that there is little money to be made in payments (alone). Interchange fees are under pressure, retailers are forming own networks, consumers are getting averse to pa...
As Apple launched its iPhone5 without NFC, lots of us asked the question: is this just a commercial strategy from Apple, or they simply don’t believe in the future of NFC? Many researchers and analyst...
Has anyone noticed a lack of young IT talent in the UK at the moment? You know what I’m talking about… Everyone you interview is a dud (even though their academic results are glowing) and they all exp...