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Paul Penrose

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

Finextra Community sets up Twitter A-list

Micro-blogging site Twitter has begun rolling out its new list-building feature which enables users to curate themed lists of Twitter accounts. For example, you could create a list of celebrity accounts or choose to follow a narrower list of friends, co-workers or business contacts. We've been dabbling with the facility this afternoon and have cre...

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Bo Harald

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

Paper invoices have NO future

It is evident - paper invoices will disappear from the business to business and business to government sectors and then later in practise also in the business to consumer/government to citizen area. The 5 mega-class reasons are exceptionally powerful and clear to see. Everyone will benefit - especially the consumers and tax payers. It is only a

/payments /retail

Paul Penrose

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

Crunch - the game for utter bankers

We missed this first time around, but it should definitely be on the Christmas shopping list for all self-respecting Finextra Community members. Crunch - the game for utter bankers is a devious card game that places you at the head of the boardroom as a CEO of a global bank juggling the conflicting demands of your ailing bank and your future retir...

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Retired Member 

Data breaches and fraud-worse than you think

Today newly released Javelin research shows that the 11% of US people who received one of those "throw-away" data breach notification letters really *are* at greater risk of ID fraud. Experts: if you're not surprised, than you know something that over 300 million Americans don't: our research also shows that actual fraud victims who rec

/security /retail

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Westpac Boss Rethinks Branch Closures

There is an article in the newspaper quoting Peter Hanlon expressing the view that branch closures may have been a tactical error which reduced the quality of service and damaged the customer relationship. http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/money/westpac-group-executive-peter-hanlon I have mentioned the lost resource that the local branch represent...

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Bo Harald

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

Nudge - not enough

Started to read Nudge by Thaler & Sunstein. Easy and nice reading - essential thought provocation needed at the latest now. What we have is a long list of very serious global challenges - ranging from global warming (which is furthered by unfettered blind growth) to financing of welfare structures (which is coming out of productive and succes...

/payments /retail

Elton Cane

Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia

Another ill-considered bank logo

ANZ have done a rebrand and ditched their blue stripy logo for a blue logo with three blobs. http://thefinancialbrand.com/2009/04/21/anz-new-logo/ Lazy journalists are reporting that the re-design cost A$15m. But this is actually the total of what the bank will spend on a new marketing campaign, updating signage etc. Seems fair enough. So it's not...

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Bo Harald

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

TV still slightly ahead

Internet has gained 117% from 2004 to today, radio lost 16%, newspapers 17%, magazines 6% - but TV kept its position (source Forrester). And this is the population at large - surely the trendsetters have changed even more. Small wonder that advertising has followed. Interestingly - changes 2008-9 are smaller or even reversed. The big change is of...

/retail Innovation in Financial Services

Bo Harald

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

Invisible hand - guiding where?

The Economist run an article Questioning the invisible hand last week. Starting off with the meltdown in the financial industry in several countries it then zooms in on the energy industry's apparent inability to secure supply for the future in UK and moves on to greenhouse gas emission report from the Committee on Climat Change: "The market,...

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Matt White

Matt White North America editor at Finextra

Zopa calls for change in tax laws

So, through this lobby group, Prosper and Loanio are trying to pitch themselves as fresh-faced, clean alternatives to the big bad banks that have got us into a bit of a mess. These paragons of virtue now want the government to help them help ordinary folks get a loan. I'm a fan of the model but these companies should have checked the rules a bit m...

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