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Research out earlier in January, from TheCityUK, has shown that financial services accounts for a substantive 9.6 per cent of the UK’s GDP. This was up from 9.4 per cent in the previous year. When combined with professional services, the percentage contribution rises to 14.5 per cent, despite employing seven per cent of the country’s workers, alth...
24 January 2013 /retail
Everyone at some point in their life was at the bottom of the food chain… but how do you beat time and forge a presence in your industry sector?... As an aspiring entrepreneur aiming to breach the start-up scene, the first thing to note is that I have a very small position in the market and therefore will struggle to gain any traction when voicing ...
24 January 2013 /payments /retail Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
DN: Thanks for agreeing to the interview Neil. I know our readers will be very interested to hear your view on how banks can deliver more value to their customers through customer centric initiatives while increasing profitability. Let's start with relationship pricing. NS: Relationship pricing is not a new concept in general – to a varying degr...
15 January 2013 /payments /retail Innovation in Financial Services
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
So, the UK has woken up to, yet another, casualty on its high street. While the US is still sobbing into their glucose monitors at the loss of Twinkies, the UK is waving goodbye to suburban town centre identikit stalwarts such as camera retailer Jessops and CD dispenser HMV. (Thank God for Starbucks and William Hill or I'd never be able to find my...
15 January 2013 /retail Finance 2.0
For many organisations, social represents one of the most drastic changes in communications since the advent of email. Savvy businesses now effectively use the power of social to interact with their customer bases, prospect for new business, deliver services and obtain customer and market insights. Indeed, this shift in communication has led many ...
11 January 2013 /retail
2013 holds tremendous promise to the financial institutions that appreciate the difference that technology can make in risk management. Here at Scorto we have put together a list of New Year’s resolutions for lenders. The five commitments below will help leaders re-think their tactics for loan origination and take loan application processing to a n...
08 January 2013 /regulation /retail Innovation in Financial Services
David Bomser Head of U.S. Core Banking & Mortgage at SAP Fioneer
Commercial Banks are at an important crossroads where tech savvy customers, outdated IT infrastructure, and strong regulatory headwinds are all coming together. Today’s personal and business customers demand and expect their banks to rapidly adopt and integrate the latest technologies to enable anytime access to their accounts and provide the sam...
04 January 2013 /retail
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...
21 December 2012 /retail Innovation in Financial Services
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...
21 December 2012 /retail
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...
13 December 2012 /payments /retail Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030
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