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News/Non-bank competitors
UK supermarket giant Asda has re-branded its personal finance arm as it prepares to become the latest retailer to take on traditional high street banks.
09 July 2012
Tesco Bank sales dipped by 3.7% for the first quarter 2012 as the high street retailer diverted resources to completing its migration to a new technology platform.
11 June 2012
UK retailer Marks & Spencer is to move into high street banking with the launch of M&S Bank next month.
08 June 2012
The UK government is inviting peer-to-peer lenders to apply for a slice of a £100 million pot that has been earmarked for firms that can offer alternative lending sources for small businesses.
31 May 2012
US account aggregation outfit Yodlee has set up an accelerator and incubator programme for start-ups to develop, test and run new digital banking applications over its FinApp open API platform.
02 May 2012
Telekom Austria is to extend its established paybox NFC scheme for parking and transit payments to the merchant point-of-sale.
18 April 2012
Funding Circle, the UK peer-to-peer lending site for small businesses, has raised £10 million in a second funding round led by Index Ventures.
04 April 2012
Apple may have the hottest stock, the coolest tech and the biggest cash pile in history, but consumers would still be wary of switching their bank accounts to a new model iBank.
20 March 2012
US pre-paid card outfit Green Dot has been given the all clear by regulators to buy Bonneville, a small Utah-based bank.
24 November 2011
US banking startup BankSimple is inviting its first customers onboard and rebranding the company to plain Simple.
08 November 2011
UK retailer Tesco is to delay its push into the full-service banking market for fear of repeating the technical mishaps that locked out customers during the summer switch to a new banking platform.
05 October 2011
UK supermarket bank Tesco is to offer customers the option of using its own brand price comparison service to rate home and insurance quotes served up by the retailer's online banking portal against competitor offerings.
28 September 2011
Financial heavyweight Citi has faced off a challenge to old-bank hegemony with a powerful display of its technological prowess that knocked the wind out of a room-full of Bank 2.0 innovation gurus and digital evangelists at an Innotribe session at Sibos in Toronto.
22 September 2011
Bankers and corporates do not expect to meet a 2014 deadline for Sepa compliance, according to a straw poll of delegates conducted during a panel discussion of the controversial payment initiative at the annual congress of banking co-operative Swift.
19 September 2011
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.
Finextra TV/Non-bank competitors
Steve O'Neill, head of branch marketing at HSBC, talks with Finextra about how the branch still has a place in the future of retail banking.
12 August 2011
Non-bank competition in the payments market is set to hot up as Google launches its own credit card and PayPal expands on its bricks-and-mortar strategy.
21 July 2011
Days after claiming to have fixed the problem, Tesco Bank is still being affected by a computer glitch that is preventing some savings customers from accessing their accounts online.
23 June 2011
UK retailer Tesco says it is in the final stages of introducing its own systems and infrastructure for its fully-fledged banking operation, with savings and loans products now available to new customers
14 June 2011
UK wireless carrier O2 has contracted with Wave Crest, FIS, Intelligent Environments and Visa Europe to deliver the payments and processing systems for the launch of a full-scale commercial mobile wallet service in the 'second half of 2011'.
19 May 2011
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