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Elizabeth Lumley

VIDEO: The challenges of global transaction banks

Saket Pabby,VP, Oracle revenue management and billing, discusses the challenges facing global transaction banks and how analytics is shaping transaction banking. Watch the video here.

04 Oct 2013
Future Finance
Elizabeth Lumley

Go on...top up my finger

Mobile wallets are mainstream…no they’re not…yes, they are… I want my NFC…what about a QR code or P2P? Tablets and smartphones, stored-value, account-to-mobile, don’t forget CARDS! Cash and cheques - ...

03 Oct 2013
Whatever...
Elizabeth Lumley

You're not cool enough for mobile

As you can imagine, Sibos is a showcase for the dark suit (no matter the weather). You can see some fight against the greys, blacks and blues - the sharp tie, the custom made lining, the Day-Glo nail...

25 Sep 2013
Future Finance
Elizabeth Lumley

Bank or IT? - You Decide!

I don't know if you've noticed, but we've been upping our 'innovation' coverage over at Finextra Towers. Don't worry, we still have a lot of love for the dark suited, world weary IT and business types...

08 Aug 2013
Elizabeth Lumley

Where bitcoin is going, there will be banks

I've been to a fair amount of FinTech, financial services and payments conferences in my time. I once sat through one where an old man in a badly fitting suit read passages from the Payments Services ...

04 Jul 2013
Disruption in Retail Banking
Elizabeth Lumley

The Twitterview's back! IBM chats about customer-centricity

Back by popular demand, get ready for the return of the Finextra Twitterview. This time we are speaking to IBM's Mike Hobday who will be chatting with the Twitterarti about banks, customers, innovatio...

01 May 2013
Disruption in Retail Banking
Elizabeth Lumley

What are banks for?

I had an interesting week last week. Not all of which was 'on the record' so to speak - Chatham House Rule and all that jazz. But I believe I can give ya’ll the gist of it. It started out with bankers...

27 Mar 2013
Disruption in Retail Banking
Elizabeth Lumley

Disruption Rocks! There are loads of jobs in ... Warrington

So, the UK has woken up to, yet another, casualty on its high street. While the US is still sobbing into their glucose monitors at the loss of Twinkies, the UK is waving goodbye to suburban town centr...

15 Jan 2013
Finance 2.0
Elizabeth Lumley

Adventures in cash...less?

In New York, in the early 1990s, there was a spate of serial robberies where muggers specifically targeted young Puerto Rican bus boys walking home late at night (or early morning) after a shift at a ...

04 Dec 2012
Finance 2.0
Elizabeth Lumley

The future is LEGO!

This post was originally called Atheists versus Evangelicals...then I walked away from it. Then I toyed with the idea of 'Battlefield Payments'...but what I really wanted to talk about was more than p...

21 Nov 2012
Finance 2.0
Elizabeth Lumley

Trust me, I'm a Banker

My husband's copy of British *adult* comic magazine Viz landed on our doorstep this weekend. (Whatcha gonna do? - at least he's not into football) In it is a wonderful two-page spread called 'Bankers!...

20 Aug 2012
Whatever...
Elizabeth Lumley

Mo Money, Mo Problems

Does anyone remember the scene from season five of The Wire, when Proposition Joe starts laundering the money from the New Day Co-op drug cartel in an off-shore bank in Antilles? (If not, get the box ...

15 Aug 2012
Finance 2.0

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