20136 Results from 2015
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
HSBC’s annual report has grown so heavy that the UK postal service is reportedly limiting the numbers its postmen may carry to prevent back injuries. The 454-page tome from the proudly carbon-neutral HSBC weighs in at a whopping 1.47kg. It includes a 100-page EU-mandated ‘business review’ and 133 pages of notes explaining its financial statements ...
13 April 2007 /retail /wholesale
Retired Member
Superb piece of research from Chris, detailing Paypals history since inception in Dec 98, with statistics, and more importantly, why they were successful. "In fact, although many of us think PayPal displaces banks, it actually enhances banking services as demonstrated by the bank services behind PayPal. For example, PayPal runs through Wells F...
11 April 2007 /payments /retail Trends in Financial Services
Matt White North America editor at Finextra
Interesting story on the BBC Web site about biometric ATMs. They are being used in India to pay illiterate workers who have trouble with the paperwork involved in collecting their wages from the bank. The ATMs use fingerprint technology to identify card holders and also provide voice instructions for the user. The security benefits of biometric ca...
05 April 2007 /security /payments
According to a survey, nearly half of Which? members are ‘annoyed’ with their bank’s interest rate. Now there’s a shock…
04 April 2007 /retail
Nick Hastings
Galvin at Windows is a stunning new French restaurant situated on the 28th floor of the Hilton Hotel on London's Park Lane, and probably has the most stunning restaurant view in the whole of London. A pre or post dinner drink in the bar with its 360 degrees view over London is well worth taking your time over as there is so much to take in. When y...
03 April 2007 After hours
Estate agents and trading technology suppliers in New York and London are preparing for a business bonanza as bulge bracket investment banks scope for sites to build a new generation of trading floors. Bloomberg reports from Manhattan on efforts by JPMorgan, Lehman, Merrill and Goldman Sachs to acquire sites capable of meeting the hi-tech, hi-vis...
03 April 2007 /wholesale Finextra50 fintech index
John Doyle Director at The Payments Business
As any politician will tell you, the first 100 days for a new leader are crucial as your audience is receptive, forgiving and open to change; after this though the judgments start to be made and the cracks begin to appear. So what should Campos concentrate on in his first 100 days as the new CEO of SWIFT? What are the challenges the organizati...
03 April 2007 /payments SWIFT Matters
The Internet changed banking forever. It is impossible to consider banking without the functionality, the ease of use and the availability that Internet banking brought to the majority of people WITH bank accounts. This was a silent revolution and became prevalent in only a few years. During the 1990's banks started offering rudimentary banking se...
03 April 2007 /payments
In an interesting twist of daftness it would appear blogging is to be made compulsory at Sony BMG, according to The Register. In the past, people have got in serious hot water after blogging and not quite following the company line, but it seems now that Sony folk in the "creative areas" will be expected to blog or be frowned upon. I wou...
03 April 2007 Cringeworthy marketing gallery
I blogged here last August, that it was predicted Man in the Middle attacks would defeat tokens, and sure enough here we go. "The bank says that its customers opened an email attachment that resulted in a virus being executed on their machines. This virus changed their browsers' behaviour so when they went to open the real ABN Amro online ban...
03 April 2007 /security Trends in Financial Services
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