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First Direct - Lessons from Banks vs Supermarkets

I’ve long been an admirer of First Direct. Recently I’ve begun to think that First Direct might be the model for how banks defend themselves from the rise of supermarket banking. First Direct is already as a model of how a niche subsidiary should be managed a bigger bank but it might also be a model for how banks develop offerings that can counter...

06 October 2014 /retail Innovation in Financial Services

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The Growth in Voice Biometrics for Banking

It’s been an interesting week for those interested in Financial Services and how biometrics could be used in the industry. It was the subject of my last post on Finextra (“Voiceprints can counter ID theft, but other threats remain”), looking at Barclays’s use of Nuance and Cisco Voice Portal and last week on Finextra brought out some of the indust...

19 February 2014 /retail Innovation in Financial Services

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