3646 Results from /retail
Gary Wright Analyst at BISS Research
As the SEPA fanfares of the 28th January disappear into the distance, it's worth analyzing how all this could have been handled so much better, to achieve the mutual objectives of the banks and most importantly their corporate customers. After EBA day (organised by Finextra and EBA), last year I undertook some research based from the Corporate Tre...
18 February 2008 /payments /retail SEPA and European Payments
Retired Member
Earlier this week, whilst catching up on news from America, I came across an article in the New York Times announcing, "The credit crisis is no longer just a subprime mortgage problem." Now no disrespect but I am sure the majority of people getting this newsflash from the New York Times have no idea what it really means. As for the rest...
15 February 2008 /regulation /retail Trends in Financial Services
With internet spreading its net across the markets, financial products are being invented and developed by companies – read as independent innovators. The selling points for all such innovators mostly revolve around three common spokes – Speed, Secure & Service. With multiplicity of products and innovators in the financial intermediary space, ...
12 February 2008 /payments /retail Innovation in Financial Services
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
No sooner have we closed the doors on our annual capital markets conference Finexpo – City Technology Strategies, than we’re opening registration for a new event, Finexpo – Green City. It’s part of a strategy to extend the Finexpo brand to encompass new markets and deliver more focussed market intelligence through our growing events portfolio. Fin...
11 February 2008 /retail /wholesale Going green
After recovering from the round of spontaneous street parties and celebrations that marked the introduction of the Single Euro Payments Area last month, my old mucker Dave Birch decided to try out the brave new world of frictionless money transfer in person. Sadly, however, Dave’s attempts to initiate a Sepa credit transfer to friends in the Nethe...
06 February 2008 /payments /retail EBAday
Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
Following on from Paul Penrose's earlier blog about the $5 million beleagured E Trade spent on their Super Bowl Ad, the WSJ today, shows just what that amount of money looks like. Really, a vomiting baby? Click here to see.
04 February 2008 /retail
Alan Goodrich Regional Sales Manager at ERI
Just when you thought the subject had safely swam off quietly into deeper waters, frightened off by crazed French bankers; the debate resurfaces thanks to those nice analysts at Celent.
28 January 2008 /retail Trends in Financial Services
Sriram Natarajan Risk Dog at Credit Risk Fraud Cards Professional
Biff!! Bang!! Kerplunk!! -..... These would be annotations if a comic book artist were to draw a strip on last week's events in the financial markets. The industry now looks like how the Roman Army is shown after an encounter with Asterix and Obelix in the famous comic series! We had hardly got over our chills over 'Black Tuesday' - when we have a...
26 January 2008 /regulation /retail
An opinion piece in the International Herald Tribune drew my attention to a report published by The World Bank in mid-Dec 2007. The study measured the relative size of 146 economies (for the year 2005) using the 'purchasing power parity' (PPP) method. The World Bank study had concluded that the economies of India & China were about 40% smal...
22 January 2008 /retail
The new year has barely started and we already have an odds-on favourite to win our 2008 idiot of the year award. Step forward Jeremy Clarkson, renowned UK celebrity petrol-head and all-round motormouth. In his weekly column for red-top tabloid the Sun, Clarkson rashly publicised his bank account number and sort code in a dimwitted effort to prove...
07 January 2008 /retail Whatever...
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