174 Results from 2010, /retail
Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven
In 2010 we had a bunch of innovative ideas become mainstream and start to impact the banking arena (for a full coverage see my post in Huffington.) However, 2011 promises to be more disruptive because as the economy finally starts to warm up, we'll be seeing a lot of new private equity investment into start-ups in the finance arena. A new dot com ...
29 December 2010 /payments /retail Innovation in Financial Services
Retired Member
Research published recently by Forrester shows that mobile banking provision in Europe is gathering pace. This refers to all three of the main mobile banking services – mobile web, mobile app and text-based services. According to its analysis, of the European banks offering mobile banking services: • 76% offer SMS alerts • 67% offer mobile banking ...
22 December 2010 /retail
2010 was a bumper year for innovations in the retail banking and payments space. Below are some of the top innovations this year. Let me know how you rank these in respect to their ability to be real game changers for the banking arena. Which innovations do you think will survive on, and which will flame out? My big bet for 2011 is NFC (Near-Field
17 December 2010 /payments /retail Innovation in Financial Services
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
So, does anyone think 2010 was a really weird year? It didn't have the 'OMG! Western Capitalism is dead!' drama of 2008, nor the limping, walking wounded vibe of 2009. Hey, 2010 even saw the return of the Sibos closing party (ah-hem 'networking event') and I spotted a chocolate fountain at one Amsterdam venue. You know there's a little extra in th...
17 December 2010 /retail /wholesale
In Part I of this post we blogged about how Kiva stands to benefit greatly by adopting a more social design and, more importantly, incorporating game-like mechanics to expand its user base and create a rich, engaging environment for lenders. On Friday, GamesBeat(VentureBeat) published a post on the trend in "gamification" of applications...
15 December 2010 /payments /retail Finance 2.0
I met yesterday with the inimitable Vernon Hill, founder of Metro Bank, and with Metro's Chairman and co-founder, Anthony Thomson. It is interesting to hear Hill's view of why Metro is able to dominate in respect to the 'customer service' space in the UK branch market. Hill postulates that despite many banks rhetoric around being customer centered...
10 December 2010 /retail
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
Translating part of a Facebook note by Liisa Jaakonsaari (MEP - Finnish Social Democrat): "The crisis in Europe is not because of EU or the Euro. Rather it can be said that EU and the euro are innocent victims. Bad guys are unregulated and irresponsible financial markets. Blaming the banks is becoming a rather worn issue and does not always hi...
08 December 2010 /retail /wholesale Whatever...
A trip to Paris is always a gastronomic experience and the opening of the Cartes trade show today was no different. On the night before the event opened, Google unveiled ‘Gingerbread’ - the latest version of the Android operating system, with NFC technology being one of the headline features. As ever, Google is leading the drive to encourage mass ...
08 December 2010 /retail
In the late 80s there was a big growth boom in Finland - fuelled ao by ending tax break on profits on selling enterprises and strong credit expansion when the savings banks (inexperienced corporate lenders) were deregulated and started to aggressively push into foreign currency lending. All this new liquidity tried to find safe havens - stock pric...
07 December 2010 /retail /wholesale Whatever...
Tim Tyler Product Manager at Misys
I've been considering how banks can leverage social media sites recently, and was not that surprised when looking further that there is very little 'bank' presence in these areas. Having just read the article on LloydsTSB and the launch of their "create an avatar" contest, I thought I'd jump straight back over to their Facebook page to se...
06 December 2010 /retail Innovation in Financial Services
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