Finance 2.0

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Group founded 24 Jan 2008
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A community for discussing the application of Web 2.0 technologies to financial services.

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Brett King

Visa gets its wallet sorted, or does it?

The announcement today of Visa’s acquisition of Fundamo signals the drawing of the battle lines in the face off between Mastercard and Visa in the mobile payments stakes. While I understand that a wa...

10 Jun 2011
Martin Bailey

At Your Service

Unsurprisingly, working for a software house specialising in Core Banking systems, we spend a fair proportion of our time talking about customer service and what banking customers really want from the...

03 Jun 2011
Retired Member

The Branch is Dead Long Live the Branch!

I was having dinner with an entrepreneur in the Indian payments space earlier today. The emerging business models and evolving consumer adoption trends in banking & financial services, soon overs

18 May 2011
Paul Blank

Is Deutsche Bank calling the top on Retail FX?

Is Deutche Bank calling the top for Retail FX? Deutsche Bank is exiting the Retail FX space by selling its hugely successful FX platform dbFX to Gain Capital, in order to focus on its core institution...

22 Apr 2011
Brett King

'Winning' at Social Media in the Finance Space

Ok, so the feedback from Finextra's #finxsm event this week is that we're finally coming to grips with the fact that Social Media isn't going to disappear into the night like some passing fad. Good n...

08 Apr 2011
Brett King

6 Things Bankers Should Never say...

Banking is changing forever. Organizations like Britannica, Blockbuster, Borders, and even Bank of America (hint: don’t start a business with ‘B’) all suffer from the same collective challenge. When y...

18 Mar 2011
Retired Member

Electronic Payments In India - A Report

Have published a report recently on Electronic Payments in India recently. The report attempts to outline key trends and developments in the domain and identify some key opportunities and challenges t...

14 Feb 2011
Elizabeth Lumley

BYO iPhone? No worries, we expected that.

I have had a number of interesting chats with IT, information security and risk people about BYO (bring your own) technology and devices, and collaborative social sharing software, lately. (they were ...

26 Jan 2011
Retired Member

A New Order Emerging in Mobile Based Financial Services

India is at the cusp of evolving a radical mobile-based banking & payments framework, which could potentially revolutionize the approach to financial inclusion and electronic payments. With over 7...

20 Jan 2011
Brett King

Banks still don't get mobile, but neither do researchers...

I read with interest a post pointed out to me by @JenRBoyd posted on Mobile Commerce Daily highlighting a recent Celent report comparing US and EU investment in multi-channel. The problem here is tha...

04 Jan 2011
Retired Member

A Social Strategy for Kiva - Part 2

In Part I of this post we blogged about how Kiva stands to benefit greatly by adopting a more social design and, more importantly, incorporating game-like mechanics to expand its user base and create ...

15 Dec 2010
Retired Member

The Tyranny of Friction

My kids have the day off today, and they each invited a friend over to "hang out" (we dare not call it a "playdate" anymore). Eventually the question of lunch arose. The question ...

24 Nov 2010

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