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Ten Months of the Mortgage Market in 140 characters or less

Ten Months of the Mortgage Market Social Media in 140 characters or less A selection of my tweets on the mortgage market over the last ten months - at last the market is recovering albeit slowly. March Stamp Duty - It may only be March but the holiday’s over : Do the numbers stack up? http://t.co/X0bNPtFT How a buy-to-let boom has transformed the m...

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Many channels but one brand voice

In the current economic climate, it would be reasonable to expect that price points might be beginning to erode brand loyalty for consumers, as they seek out the best deals at the expense of their favourite retailers. However, a recent survey from e-commerce and digital marketing solutions provider EPiServer revealed that the majority of online sh...

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The future of payments is more than payments

Despite a few technical changes that have occurred in recent years, until now the traditional payments landscape hasn’t changed much since the first payment card was introduced a few decades ago. The Point-of-Sale (POS) has largely retained its primary focus of allowing retailers to accept and collect payments from consumers. This is rapidly chang...

/payments /retail Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

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Does the future of banking depend on CRM?

At SIBOS earlier this year, sales force automation (SFA) was a recurring issue, as banks are finding themselves under increasing pressure to improve customer service interactions whilst remaining cost efficient. While discussing these challenges, it became clear that SFA is going to play a much bigger role in the future of banking and how banks a...

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How Automotive Telematics Reduces Car Insurance Fraud

How Automotive Telematics Reduces Insurance Fraud? We all know that are car insurance is going up because of whiplash cases, bad driving by a certain age group and EU law but how can we push back and make it more difficult for motorists to do a fraudulent claim and secondly reduce insurance for good driving whether you are male or female? One of t...

/regulation /retail Innovation in Financial Services

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Time for review: mortgage sales practices

The FSA’s mortgage market review guidelines pose a number of issues for retail banks in the UK, and are set to have significant impact on the way mortgages are bought and sold here. Although new regulations can often add additional pressures within the industry, anything that can reduce liabilities without imposing onerous costs ought to be welcom...

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Brett King

Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven

The Un'der'banked don't need banks anymore

Traditionally, if you wanted to move money around, save cash, pay a bill, purchase something at a store, or otherwise have some sort of systemic access to your cash as you moved around - you needed a “bank”. In fact, you couldn't do any of these things in the past without a bank. Despite the fact you might have opted to just use cash and stay 'off...

/retail Innovation in Financial Services

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Increasing Efficiency in Mortgage Sales

Twenty odd years ago when I started working in the mortgage industry, space for paper files was nearly as important as disk space to store mortgage applications. The industry has of course moved on since then, but often behind the technology curve and a little grudgingly. Initially computer sales channels were little more than an electronic versio...

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Decision Automation: A Simple Puzzle That Can Teach Us A Lot

In this article, we want to illustrate the importance of augmenting automated decisioning and business intelligence systems with human intelligence. Here’s a simple logic puzzle for starters. Please look at the picture at the page bottom. There are four cards lying on a table in the way pictured below. Identify which card(s) you would flip in order...

/regulation /retail Financial Risk Management

Ketharaman Swaminathan

Ketharaman Swaminathan Founder and CEO at GTM360 Marketing Solutions

CTS-2010: Cheque Truncation Or Contract Termination System?

There has been a spate of ads and announcements over the last 3-4 weeks by banks in India about the introduction of the new Cheque Truncation System, CTS-2010, from the new year. For the uninitiated, CTS transforms cheque clearing from a paper-intensive to a digital process whereby only images of cheques move between the payer bank, payee bank a...

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