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Steve Ellis Founder at Finextra Research
And that needs to be SaaS based. Well, that's what Sramana Mitra thinks.
27 February 2008 /retail Finance 2.0
Australia's BankWest has released three mutant kittens into the worldwideinterweb. See them perform their song here. Could someone explain to me what is going on here? Other than an ad agency gets a new viral ad in their portfolio, and to talk up in new business pitches. Its all part of Happy Banking apparently. You can picture the brainstormin...
26 February 2008 Whatever...
A nice article here from BusinessWeek on the techniques a new generation of personal finance web sites are using to build trust among their online audience. The article takes a snapshot look at Wesabe, Geezeo, Mint, Buxfer, BillMonk, Expensr and NetworthIQ.com.
12 February 2008 Finance 2.0
Jodange has debuted Top of Mind at Demo '08 - the press release is here. Built using the expertise of a bunch of Cornell University computer scientists, Jodange claims Top of Mind is already in evaluation with seven financial institutions. According to Jodange: the product's breakthrough sentiment analysis technology, custom filters allow users t...
01 February 2008 Finance 2.0
Mashable reports Reuters has announced Calais, an open API for automatic content tagging aimed at bloggers and content publishers. The Calais web site offers a $5,000 bounty to any developer quick off the mark with a WordPress plug-in for Calais. I can't confirm if this is actually 'news' as there is nothing formally announced on reuters.com (very ...
30 January 2008 Finance 2.0
... in Second Life that is. Which makes it seem a touch irrelevant to the real world right now. Although it is, apparently, costing Second Lifers who deposited with a number of the virtual banks the loss of 'real' dollars. WSJ has the full story - and its free to view too (thanks for that Rupert).
23 January 2008 Finance 2.0
Mashable points me to news that Michael Feser, a senior exec at E*Trade Financial, is to join the admirably funded ($35 million at last count) online broking 'community', Zecco. Feser was previously VP Customer Services at E*Trade, the PR is here. Have to admit I hadn't come across Zecco before. Their 'about' section uses the C-word a lot: Commun...
London's Mayor, Ken Livingstone has earned some brownie points for the introduction and extension of the Oyster Card. But Writer and blogger, Matthew Stibbe vents on his experiences of being required to use a mobile phone to pay for a parking meter in Central London. Matthew used to run a software company, so if he has trouble with usability then...
21 December 2007
Rafat at paidcontent has pointed to information emerging from a Thomson investor day that shared info on the likely shape of the business after merger (acquisition) with Reuters. While Reuters will represent 59% of the revenues of the combined group, Thomson will represent 57% of the operating profit. The full Thomson IR deck is here.
04 October 2007 /wholesale
Here MSN and Yahoo! are each running a story by PA's Oliver Teves, that states 5.5 million Filipinos are using their mobile phones as virtual wallets to store cash and transfer money. Apparently, one in ten Filipinos works abroad and needs to transfer money home. Using their mobiles as virtual wallets can avoid the necessity to open a bank account...
01 October 2007 Futuristic Banking
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