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A community for discussing the application of Web 2.0 technologies to financial services.
As iPad was released, a lots of developers already started up their engines to create thousands or even millions of different apps, so the financial ones will be there too. The good thing about the i...
I stated in my blogpost in October, 2008 : HTML (browser based) won the technology challenge for mobile banking. It seems to be true for the majority (65%) of the mobile banking users in the US, acco...
It’s interesting to see recent blog comment regarding Morgan Stanley’s new Matrix platform, and what else is needed (in terms of full range of products) to enable them become a top five global FX hou...
How do you define innovation in finance? Are we talking about the creation of new synthetic debt instruments, famously decried by Warren Buffet as "financial weapons of mass destruction". Or...
Lots of chatter in social media circles yesterday about this report on the New Comm Biz blog cocerning a financial services employee who was allegedly forced to remove his LinkedIn profile in respons...
Bank of America has announced the launch of the Credit Card Clarity Commitment(TM), a one-page summary of customers' rates, fees, and payment information. "Bank of America is investing more in ou...
This comes direct from a PayPal press release, announcing that more than a dozen developers have created a new generation of applications built with the PayPal X global payments platform. Here's a sa...
Micro-blogging site Twitter has begun rolling out its new list-building feature which enables users to curate themed lists of Twitter accounts. For example, you could create a list of celebrity accoun...
Rumours that Twitter is in advanced talks with Google and Microsoft about striking data mining deals has resurrected speculation about the use of the microblogging site as a high frequency trading too...
OMG. Twitter down. Hit by DoS attack. Facebook also grinding. Cyber-sabotage suspected. And we can't even tweet the news. World grinds to halt. Not
Yesterday’s FinExtra webcast entitled “Transcending the client experience” discussed some important emerging themes with regard to how banks are starting to view their client facing trading technology...
Twitter has suffered an embarassing security lapse after a hacker stole hundreds of confidential documents and released them in the blogosphere. Explaining the break-in, Twitter CEO Biz Stone writes...