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Elizabeth Lumley

Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted

EBADay 2010 - Luxembourg, here we come!

Finextra HQ has been a hive of activity around planning the upcoming EBADay - to be held on the 26th and 27th of May in Luxembourg. Registration is open and the agenda has been set. It should not be a surprise to many that this year the focus will be on the Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa) as well as the Payments Services Directive (PSD) and Sepa...

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Steve Scott

Steve Scott Senior Product Manager, Business Banking at Temenos

Are Banks nervous about Banking Apps?

I downloaded the NatWest iPhone App recently and at first thought it was just great, but now I'm getting bored with it. Presentation is fine, navigation no problems, but functionally it now seems lacking. I want it to do more, I want to be able make payments, account transfers, edit standing orders etc. I also want to do the same with my accounts...

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Paul Penrose

Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra

The ATM was the last great financial innovation

How do you define innovation in finance? Are we talking about the creation of new synthetic debt instruments, famously decried by Warren Buffet as "financial weapons of mass destruction". Or should we be looking at tech or service-led innovations that have contributed to the social good. The reason I ask is because MIT has just published ...

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Navin Rammohan

Navin Rammohan Principal Manager - Marketing at Infosys Technologies Ltd.

The Importance of Partnership in Banking

The changing landscape is forcing banks to look at different ways to enhance profitability through the services they offer. From being a one stop shop for all financial service needs, banks are consolidating their profitable ventures and partnering with third parties in areas of non-core competence. Partnership, by its very nature, allows banks t...

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Checklist Item 3: Hold on to your customers!

The longer a customer stays with a bank, the less it costs to retain him. In a recent study of banking customers, average product ownership and profitability was found to be 20% higher among those who thought favourably of their bank. I can cite many figures, but the point is made – there is a huge incentive for banks to retain and sustain custome...

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Dexia Bank streams live rock concerts in its banner ads

Dexia Bank has launched in 2009 one of the most innovative initiative in the Financial industry: “Axion Banner Concerts”. Their affiliate Axion bank streamed rock concerts within the frames of traditional banner ads. Axion bank is also an innovative concept as it is a whole separate bank to exclusively targeting customers in the 12-25 age bracket ...

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Elizabeth Lumley

Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted

Banks and social media - More substance or more Kool-Aid?

Finextra recently held a live Twitterview with Brett King, banking consultant and author of upcoming book Bank 2.0. During the conversation, King says that online banking will beat branch banking this year - and that the time has come to call all services ‘mainstream banking'. More controversially, King claimed that regulations were just an ‘excus...

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Trevor Jenkins

Trevor Jenkins Director at Maylands Consulting Ltd

Cardholder Identification for Credit Cards in Canada, USA

I have been trying to research the requirement for additional cardholder identification for cardholders with UK-issued credit cards using POS terminals in Canada and the USA. I have sometimes been asked for additional identification in Canada, but never in the USA. In the USA my signature is seldom checked thoroughly. I haven't been able to fin...

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Elizabeth Lumley

Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted

Social media and banks; uneasy bedfellows? The Twitterview

Always one to embrace anything new and shiny, Finextra is embarking on our very first Twitterview. When: Feb. 17, 14:00 GMT Where: Follow @Finextra and @brettking Hashtag: #finxlive Finextra will be chatting with industry consultant Brett King author of the book Bank 2.0. He is also the founder of the International Academy of Financial Managemen...

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Chinese online gangsters target Aussie celebrity builder

Australians continue riding a growing wave of Chinese investment in resources, while helping to stave off much of the GFC or recession other countries had to deal with. Now it seems with all this success they are now becoming more of a target from international online crime gangs targeting Aussie wealth. Last week Aussie TV personality and larriki...

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