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News/Non-bank competitors
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
Social networking giant Facebook has set up a payments subsidiary, registering it in various US states.
22 March 2011
Jack Dorsey, CEO of Square, has taken to Twitter to announce that the mobile payments start-up is now processing more than $1 million a day.
03 March 2011
London-based online credit outfit Wonga has completed a £73 million funding round led by US venture capitalist Oak Investment Partners.
17 February 2011
UK high street chain Marks & Spencer is considering opening banks inside 55 stores through a tie up with HSBC, according to Bloomberg.
22 December 2010
Twelve technology start-ups are competing for venture capitalists' blessing at a session on the final day of Sibos, the annual event run by financial messaging body Swift.
28 October 2010
A business that aims to create a complete view of a bank's financial health by using recycled financial messages is the favourite to win the Innotribe Lab pitching contest held at Sibos, the annual conference held by financial messaging body Swift.
Tesco's ambition to build a full service banking operation has suffered a setback after the Financial Services Authority delayed giving the supermarket clearance to offer mortgages, according to the Observer.
04 October 2010
US conglomerate General Electric is planning to launch an online bank, becoming the latest player to take on Britain's high street financial institutions, according to the Sunday Times.
16 August 2010
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