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Elizabeth Lumley Global FinTech Commentator at Girl, Disrupted
Bank of America was an early active adopter of Twitter, which they use to monitor and respond to customer service questions. It is interesting to see how Twitter as evolved. For some it is about watching the conversations (is there a #hashtag for that?). For others it is about following interesting or relevant people. In order to conclude whether ...
25 November 2009 /retail Social Banks
I just needed to share this with the Finextra Community. So much better than the Window 7 house party - Push that button baby! (for those outside the UK - the Sugarbabes are an all-girl UK supergroup, (and I mean super) who tend to upgrade with new members every year. Kind of like...) See the ads here.
25 November 2009 Whatever...
Finextra and Caplin Systems recently recorded a webcast looking at how the financial services industry is leveraging RIA technologies and creating a more full service customer experience. The panel had a spirited discussion. "I would say these days you are losing clients if you don't have that kind of offering....If you do not have it, you are...
19 November 2009
Senior payments professionals from RBS, HSBC, BNYMellon and JPMorgan join with industry analysts to debate the future of banking and payments in the European union, in our upcoming webcast hosted by Finextra and Western Union. Register now and receive a free report looking at how the banking industry has reacted to the environment created by the Pa...
19 November 2009 /payments
Finextra and BT are joined by Credit Suisse, HSBC, Knight Equity Markets, Cisco Systems and the Tabb Group for a one hour, transatlantic discussion looking at the future of financial networls. The live webcast will will be broadcast from BT studios in New York and London on Dec, 1 at 14:00 GMT. Register here. Our industry experts will discuss a ra...
A few years ago I was at a talk with Scott McNeally of Sun Microsystems just after the Oscars in the US. He remarked how wonderful the Oscars were "A whole industry gathers to award prizes - to themselves." Not for nothing is marketing the 'dark art'. I've worked at publications where a day before an awards ceremony when faced with no vo...
06 November 2009
Bloomberg's global identifiers for all asset classes are now available for free. A move that will be applauded by most standards and identifier evangelists. However, as most veterans of the standards rows know - politics plays a far greater role and can overshadow any data management benefits. Bloomberg may be aiming this at the Cusip Service Burea...
04 November 2009 Data Management 101
The title of my blog is a quote from a new Finextra webcast It pays to play - opportunities and challanges for internal crossing, available now on an on-demand basis. Anyone agree with that quote? Here's another one: "The systematic internaliser rules were constructed by people who really didn't understand how the markets work." Overly h...
29 October 2009
Finextra is hosting a live webcast, along with Caplin, on Tuesday, 10 Nov. at 2:30 GMT. Resgiter here. The live and interactive webcast, Buyers' market - single-dealer portals and courting the online client, will allow views to watch a debate between three major financial firms - HSBC, Societe Generale and Unicredit. Along with Paul Caplin from C...
28 October 2009
Finextra recently sat down with Richard Allen, principal consultant at Consullt Hyperion. The firm recently set up a dedicated unit looking at card fraud and all the 'scary things' being perpetrated by hackers. The video is here. Although Allen does talk about the success of chip and pin and services like 'Verified by Visa' in reducing card fraud...
26 October 2009 /security /payments
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