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BankSimple demos user interface as launch nears

BankSimple, the start-up hoping to take advantage of public disillusionment with the financial services industry by creating a bank that "doesn't suck", has provided a first glimpse of its user interface.

22 September 2011

Finextra TV/Online banking

Time to market at ING

Steve Van Wyk, CIO at ING, along with Hans Tesselaar of BIAN, discuss the role of 'agile' development at the bank.

22 September 2011

News/Online banking

Movenbank promises to 'reboot' banking at Sibos

Bank innovation evangelist and inveterate Finextra blogger Brett King took to the stage at the Sibos international banking conference in Toronto to outline his plans for the creation of Movenbank, an entirely new branchless, paperless, and mobile centric bank.

19 September 2011

News/Online banking

EBA Clearing calls for bank pilots for pan-European e-banking payment scheme

EBA Clearing has issued a call for pilot banks to participate in a iive trial of its MyBank online payment scheme in May 2012.

19 September 2011

News/Online banking

FBI investigating 400 corporate account takeovers

The FBI is currently investigating over 400 reported cases of corporate account takeovers, where cyber crooks have used ACH and wire transfers to steal tens of millions of dollars from US businesses.

16 September 2011

Finextra TV/Online banking

Swift's Securities Services

Brett Lancaster, managing director at Swift discusses data standards, legal entity identifiers and corporate actions prior to Sibos 2011.

15 September 2011

News/Online banking

Halifax, Bank of Scotland face customer backlash after Lloyds online merger hiccup

Millions of Halifax and Bank of Scotland customers have been unable to gain full access to their online accounts after a 'big bang' integration with the Lloyds Internet platform over the weekend.

14 September 2011

News/Online banking

Misys taps social media location information for bank-to-customer payment authorisation

UK fintech vendor Misys has launched a service that enables bank customers to use location-based social media applications such as Foursquare to confirm their whereabouts to authorise transactions.

14 September 2011

Finextra TV/Online banking

The future of internet banking for business

Jeff Watson, Associate Partner-Digital and Mobile Channel Transformation, IBM discusses the future of internet banking for business.

14 September 2011

Finextra TV/Online banking

It's all mobile at Sibos 2011

Adam Kennedy, product director at VocaLink, discusses channel and mobile delivery prior to Sibos.

14 September 2011

Finextra TV/Online banking

Transaction solutions for corporate clients

Gerlach Jacobs, global head Transaction Services at ING discusses the importance of transaction solutions for clients and how to meet the challenges they are facing in an increasingly complex banking world.

14 September 2011

News/Online banking

OCBC ATM, online and mobile services knocked out

Singapore's OCBC Bank's systems have been hit by a glitch, leaving customers struggling to use branch, ATM, Internet and mobile services for several hours today.

13 September 2011

News/Online banking

Small and mid-sized firms opt for human touch over online banking

Following the economic crisis, small and medium-sized American businesses are putting less faith in Internet banking, instead opting for the 'human touch', according to research from Greenwich Associates.

12 September 2011

Finextra TV/Online banking

SunGard on the 'Well-managed money' study

David Hamilton, president of SunGard's banking business discusses the five key challenges that will affect the financial services industry over the next few years.

12 September 2011

News/Online banking

Cardless transactions are the future says South Africa's FNB

South Africa's FNB says it is "overwhelmed" by take-up of a novel cardless ATM service which enables customers to withdraw cash using SMS PIN codes sent to their mobile phone.

08 September 2011

Finextra TV/Online banking

Fundtech@Sibos, previews Sibos 2011

George Ravich, CMO of Fundtech, previews Sibos 2011

08 September 2011

News/Online banking

ING Belgium secures online customers with Gemalto Ezio

ING Belgium has selected Gemalto's Ezio suite of end-to-end authentication technology to secure its million online banking customers.

01 September 2011

News/Online banking

Mobile and social to emerge as power channels for banking

New data from the UK's Office of National Statistics demonstrates the critical importance to banks of mobile and social channels to the consumer, with 91% of young adults connected to social networking sites, and nearly half of all Web users accessing the Internet via their mobile phone.

31 August 2011

News/Online banking

Dupaco Credit Union and DBS using location-based apps to lure customers into the branch

Dupaco Credit Union is using location-based social media application FourSquare to reward customers who visit its branches with prizes ranging from koozies to the chance to feature on billboards.

31 August 2011

News/Online banking

Ex-PayPal CEO Harris secures $25m funding for financial adviser site

Personal Capital, a financial advisor site led by former PayPal and Intuit CEO Bill Harris, has come out of stealth mode after securing $25 million in funding.

26 August 2011