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Different Strokes for Different Folks!

Necessity is the mother of innovation! This tired old cliché was proved right by an Infosys-Asian Banker joint research study of 59 banks from 14 countries in the Asia Pacific region, which revealed that banks innovate mainly to beat severe market and regulatory challenges. However, the similarity ends there. The study highlighted that banks in di...

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Navin Rammohan

Navin Rammohan Principal Manager - Marketing at Infosys Technologies Ltd.

Schools and Banks: What's Common?

As a father of a 6 year old and someone who has a keen interest in alternate models of education, I’ve been fascinated by some of the talks by Sir Ken Robinson on creativity and education reforms. Some of his observations about the current schooling system have a strong parallel in the way the banking system was and is being governed. Structure &a...

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Brett King

Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven

Banks still don't get mobile, but neither do researchers...

I read with interest a post pointed out to me by @JenRBoyd posted on Mobile Commerce Daily highlighting a recent Celent report comparing US and EU investment in multi-channel. The problem here is that the conclusions of the report are correct, but even the report itself suffers from an old-school view of the banking arena, that is, we are still as...

/payments /retail Finance 2.0

Brett King

Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven

A Start-up Boom for the Finance Sector?

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 ...

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2011: The year for mobile banking

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 ...

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Brett King

Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven

The Top 14 innovations in the banking arena for 2010

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

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Elizabeth Lumley

Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted

2010 - Consensus? We don't need no stinking consensus...

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...

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A Social Strategy for Kiva - Part 2

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...

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Brett King

Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven

Lucky to be a customer? Not at Metro bank

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...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Blame it on the banks 2

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...

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