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Global Payments inks card processing deal with Sarajevo's Postbank

US e-payments outfit Global Payments has won a five year agreement to provide card processing services to Sarajevo-based Postbank BH.

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UK Web banks come out top for customer satisfaction - study

The UK's direct banks are outperforming their high street rivals when it comes to customer satisfaction, according to a survey conducted by consumer group Which?

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IT upgrade knocks out IF Web service

Customers of UK direct bank Intelligent Finance (IF) were unable to access accounts on Sunday and Monday after hardware installed to increase capacity caused an outage.

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Telecom Italia wins EUR45m deal with Monte dei Paschi di Siena

Italian banking group Monte dei Paschi di Siena (BMPS) has signed a three year contract, worth EUR45 million, with Telecom Italia for the design and implementation of an integrated voice and data telecommunications network.

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Offshore call centres failing to deliver - report

The cost advantages to financial services firms of operating call centres in offshore locations are diminishing due to rising wages in countries such as India, according to research conducted by Compass Management Consulting.

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Wachovia to establish call centre in Philippines

US banking group Wachovia is teaming with BPO vendor Genpact to open an offshore customer services call centre in the Philippines in early 2008.

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Channel management big challenge for banks - Booz Allen Hamilton

The majority of customers still prefer to do their banking and buy financial products at branches because of poor performance of Internet and telephone channels, according to a global retail banking study conducted by management consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton.

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Banco Sabadell and Telefónica team for 'instant banking' services

Spanish banking group Banco Sabadell is investing EUR57.5 million in a joint venture with telecommunications firm Telefónica that will focus on developing anytime, anywhere 'instant banking' services, incorporating new interactive TV and mobile telephony channels.

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Rise in offshore labour costs in 2006 - report

The cost advantages of employing staff in cheap offshore locations declined in 2006, mainly due to accelerating wage levels, according to a study by consulting firm AT Kearney.

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Mobile banking take up set to grow - Celent

Research from Celent suggests that the mobile banking channel will grow from one per cent of US Web banking households today, to 35% within the next three years - a forecast that breaks with downbeat assessments from other analyst houses.

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Web banking soaring over all other retail channels - TowerGroup

Growth in Internet banking is outpacing all other retail delivery channels and is rising at an annual rate of 27%, according to a US study by TowerGroup.

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Offshoring fears surface at NAB

National Australia Bank (NAB) may ship hundreds of jobs to offshore centres in India following a review of its back office operations in Melbourne.

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Barclaycard to shut Manchester call centre

Barclaycard is closing its customer call centre in Manchester, which employs 630 staff, and is shifting some of the work to offshore centres in India.

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Lloyds TSB closes Mumbai call centre; brings work back to UK

UK bank Lloyds TSB says its contact centre in Mumbai will no longer handle customer calls from the UK because interactive voice recognition (IVR) technology introduced last year has reduced the number of calls sent through to staff.

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Norwich Union brings 150 Indian call centre jobs back to UK

Insurance firm Norwich Union is bringing 150 call centre jobs outsourced to its offshore centres in India back home to Britain.

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More Th>n introduces personalised customer services

More Th>n, the direct financial services arm of UK insurer Royal & SunAlliance, is introducing a personalised call centre service where each customer will be assigned their own service manager.

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Internet banking overtakes telephone in the UK

The number of UK customers using Internet banking service has outstripped those using telephone banking for the first time, according to payments association Apacs.

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India's HDFC Bank takes note of customer feedback with IBM

India's HDFC Bank is to install information software from IBM to examine customer feedback in e-mails and phone calls from among its 535 branches in 300 cities

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Public opposition to offshoring grows

Public antipathy to offshore outsourcing continues to grow in Britain with one in three adults (32%) believing that UK companies should be forced to bring offshored jobs back home, according to a survey released by Deloitte.

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Westpac shelves offshoring plans

Australian banking group Westpac has ditched plans to shift hundreds of back office jobs from Sydney to an offshore centre in India.