I *love* 'it's the women that need fixing' defense. Bring it on sweethart.
28 May 2014 10:31 Read comment
Oh! Goody Goody Gumdrops! I can't flippin' WAIT for Mifid III 'Some enchanted evening, when two orders see each other...across a crowded order routing [room]..." (Ed: go home Liz)
16 Jan 2014 11:49 Read comment
Payment geeks don't count - we're the nerds of the geek world. Our customers are just too lame for Comic-Com.
11 Oct 2013 18:41 Read comment
Neil, I know there's no one here my us payment geeks. But I think it is safe to say that no one in the history of the world has ever, or will ever utter the phrase 'wow, now that really was a 'payment experience' I enjoyed.' :-)
11 Oct 2013 18:22 Read comment
A bank takes desposits and is highly regulated (When I say 'highly' I mean, mind-numbingly, fucks-with-you-head than runs off with your daughter REGULATED).
A company that deals with payments or transactions or deals in any border-line financial advice, platform or helps to crowdfund your rude ceramics business with bitcoins, which does not have a banking license and is therefore (see above) not highly regulated - is not a bank.
Banks heavily rely on IT to support the (banking) business. This does not make them an 'IT company' This makes them a bank, with a (delete where apporpriate) innovative/incompetent IT company inside it.
A cat dressed as a shark riding a Roomba is not a shark. It is still a cat. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLt5rBfNucc
Peace out
14 Aug 2013 14:27 Read comment
Ah, good catch. You can share our videos, news stories and announcements on reddit (in fact we get a lot of traffic from reddit). But the Blogs (or community section as we call it internally) is going through a redesign at the moment. Our web guy is waiting for the redesign to be finalised and launched, before the 'sharing' buttons are added.
My 'thoughts' on the debate will be coming soon.
10 Aug 2013 14:35 Read comment
"...saving a bit of money for a rainy day for themselves and their family."
I only save money for sunny days.
"mergency Fund [sic]
Don’t tell anybody about this fund, not your husband, your children or anybody else."
Shhhhh, money and women don't mix. Keep it to yourself...
"Keep Track of Spending
One of the better money tips for women is that they should be able to track their spending."
What happenes between ME and my Sainsbury's Nectar points is nobody else's business. OK? (see above)
If you have a regular job, you need to make investments in managed funds."
I'm sorry, I dodn't even understand this sentence. Must be because I have a vagina.
"Always look for Deals
Don’t buy cheap products..."
Don't judge, buddy
"Keep Making an Effort
Effective women personal finance management is all about making the right kind of effort..."
Hey! Listen 'Inverdale' don't tell me what I need to make an 'effort on; awright?
"End Words
Saving money is money earned."
Wow! Thank you sooo much. And I speak for the entire female population of the world. THANK YOU!
09 Jul 2013 14:04 Read comment
You can read the Storified version of Finextra's Twitter chat with IBM's Mike Hobday here.
13 May 2013 13:49 Read comment
So, how do reporters post news to the terminal, without access to the terminal? Just askin'
13 May 2013 13:04 Read comment
That's rather cold. Are you suggesting that these people should have branched out and started their own camera store? Or that they should uproot their families and lives and, what, move somewhere else?
A point is that the people that pay the harshest price when a bank or a retail store fails to adapt to a changing consumer marketplace and creatively respond to the 'disrupters' are the wage slaves out in the trenches of suburban and town centre shopping malls, not the people at the top of the executive pile.
Are you saying that's not 'tough' enough?
I was lucky enough to grow up in a comfortable part of the Northeast US (not Idaho - sorry - although I have been there), to middle class parents who paid for both my mine and my brother's university education - leaving us with no student loans yoked around our necks.
I moved to the UK, following my job covering the financial services sector, when I was 25, single and childless - a much easier move than it would be now (40, married, mortgage, child in school).
Although I would argue that I worked hard for everything in my life, I am smart enough to realise that my life has been far easier than most people’s in US and UK. I would never think to sneer at those recently unemployed, not because of their own actions, but by ineptitude of senior management or changing market conditions.
I do think that good workers will find jobs, (or start their own) eventually. But you can’t be saying that times aren’t hard right now. I think there has been quite a heavy dose of ‘tough love’ at the moment.
My other point – which I probably didn’t express well enough – is that disrupting the banks is often touted as ‘cool’. After all, banks deserve our scorn – even the ‘Warrington Five’ blamed the ‘banks’. But the face of the consumer digital revolution is not someone paying for Starbucks with an iPhone – it’s a high street filled with bookies and 99p shops and store managers photocopying CVs at the soon-to-closed local library.
Entrepreneurs, especially FinTech ones, need to ditch the ‘disrupt and destroy’ rhetoric. We need a consumer world that is meeting the changing marketplace with ‘create and build’.
16 Jan 2013 15:47 Read comment
Social Banks
Disruption in Retail Banking
Financial Risk Management
Finance 2.0
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