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Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
This comes direct from a PayPal press release, announcing that more than a dozen developers have created a new generation of applications built with the PayPal X global payments platform. Here's a sample from the early movers: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) worked with PayPal to support application payments in the Java Store Beta and enhan...
04 November 2009 /payments /retail Finance 2.0
Retired Member
"I believe what we have here is a better deal for the taxpayer," so says Alastair Darling. No it isn't. The best thing for the taxpayer is for these institutions to be nursed back to health as they are and the shares sold on the open market at a profit - later. Carving up the banks is not good on so many levels: 1) Selling branches. ...
03 November 2009 /retail Transaction Banking
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...
30 October 2009 /retail /wholesale Finance 2.0
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
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
30 October 2009 /payments /retail
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...
30 October 2009 /retail /wholesale Whatever...
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
27 October 2009 /security /retail
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...
27 October 2009 /payments /retail Whatever...
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...
24 October 2009 /payments /retail
Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia
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...
23 October 2009 /retail Cringeworthy marketing gallery
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...
22 October 2009 /retail Innovation in Financial Services
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