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Couple of things William:

We didn't write the article - it's just a PR, which is why it's in our 'company announcements' section rather than 'news'. Also, it's fairly common for vendors to report contract wins with banks they cannot name. When that happens, we don't write news articles about it.

Lachlan, De la Rue's not commenting on which countries are affected but India is being touted and the FT says the RBI has already sent a delegation over to the UK to discuss the issue.

Off with their heads!

You can read our coverage of the RBS fine here.

We've sent a message to Jason O'Shaughnessy pointing to Nick's comment and reminding him that, as a Finextra community member, he's free to reply.

John, I agree 30% seems high but the methodology used is actually pretty good compared to most of the rubbish we get sent.

Here's the detail:

• The research was conducted in sixteen countries using an online methodology.
• The sample source in all cases was an online research panel, maintained by one of our trusted international suppliers. The panel chooses people to participate in the surveys to ensure a representative spread of respondents. The participants are not self-selecting, but selected by the panel to participate based on creating a representative sample. In this case, we screened on mobile phone usage, meaning that the sample was a "quota" sample - only mobile users could take part. Therefore the survey went out to a representative sample within that country, excluding non-mobile users. (And, by definition, non-internet users.)
• At least 250 mobile phone users participated in the survey in each country.
• Overall the survey was completed by just over 4,100 mobile users.
• The countries in the survey were United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, Italy, France, South Africa, Mexico, United States, Argentina, Canada, India, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Australia

The Web site says Internet banking is "coming soon"...

No Ben, I didn't - has been fixed (I'm not drunk).

Yep, can't help but compare this twitterview to the banksimple effort, which was far more open with less of a corp comms feel. That's not to denegrate Citi - it's clearly more difficult for a behemoth to get used to this kind of thing than an upstart with nothing to lose. The mere fact Citi agreed to try (kudos Liz) has to be applauded. Most of us are still feeling our way with this Twitter lark and I'm frankly still to be convinced that it is has much real value but there's only one way to find out: give it a go.

So, the HSBC statement seems to confirm that the bank is, as Gardner speculated, taking its time and looking for the 'big bang' rather than getting to market quickly by "simply re-packaging existing service on a mobile".

Which approach is right?