20135 Results from 2015
Paul Penrose Head of Research at Finextra
Toy maker Hasbro is doing its bit to keep pace with the vogue for virtual currency. When it launches this summer, Hasbro's latest edition of the 60s board game, The Game of Life, will be the first in America to replace cash with a Visa-branded card as the preferred form of currency. A new electronic "LifePod" - which replaces the spin ...
08 March 2007 /payments /retail
Reuters is working on plans to develop a professional networking service for fund managers, traders and analysts. Pitching the project to Guardian journalists as a “version of MySpace for the financial services community”, Reuters’ Web 2.0-bedazzled CEO Tom Glocer adds: "It won't have the latest hot videos and the 'why I am into Metallica an...
07 March 2007 /wholesale
Hoss Atri Head of Institutional Partnerships at Elifinty LLC
Payments fraud is no longer a niche or opportunistic fraud. As the scale and sophistication of payment products and channels have grown, so have the threat and magnitude of fraud. Reliable and secure payer authentication and verification are critical to the integrity of any payment scheme and instrument. Over a year ago, in the UK the card indust...
06 March 2007 /security
Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia
Today's news saw an announcement that's likely to become more commonplace over the next two years: the merger of two European payment infrastructures. The merger of Voca and Link doesn’t fit as neatly with the European Commission’s vision as last year’s merger of Dutch payments body Interpay and Germany's Transaktionsinstitut to create Equens. The ...
06 March 2007 /payments SEPA and European Payments
Matt White North America editor at Finextra
Barclaycard announced today that they are cutting 630 call centre jobs. Some of these (200 according to Amicus) will be offshored to India. You have to wonder about the bright spark who came up with the timing of this announcement. Barclaycard is struggling – a couple of weeks ago it announced that profits were down a massive 40% in 2006. But any...
06 March 2007 /retail
Icap broker Johnny Black and fintech headhunter Chris Mike are going to extreme lengths to publicise their forthcoming charity race to the North Pole. The two City gents have formed Team Bearing 360 North to compete in the 400-mile race and raise vital funds for Orchid, a male cancer charity dedicated to fighting prostate and testicular cancer. T...
05 March 2007 /wholesale
As leading FTSE shares post triple-digital losses in London this morning, the markets await with trepidation the response from Wall Street. The continuing slide in stocks in London follows further reverses in the Dow on Friday afternoon and another hammering for the Asian markets this am. The market wobble couldn’t have come at a worse time for U...
Retired Member
Thanks to the Finextra folks for this opportunity to participate in the Finextra community. I will try to be provocative, and informative with my posts here, and looking forward to seeing where this goes. In general I blog about Banks and their progress, or lack of progress, in addressing the needs of their customers online. As the Finextra com...
02 March 2007 /payments
Steve Ellis Founder at Finextra Research
Top science web site - Null Hypothesis - reports new risks facing whales and dolphins. A craze for high speed beaching exploits is putting the oceans cretaceans at risk. Competitive instincts to be the highest beacher are leaving whales stranded beyond the high water mark. This report may not be true. You may not find it funny. It is Friday.
02 March 2007 Whatever...
The trained dog at the ATM story got me thinking about how well banks are catering to disabled communities with their banking channels -- whether branch, ATM or website. I recall that some banks have given thought to ATM accessibility in the past by having at least one machine in a row of several positioned much lower than the rest so short people,...
02 March 2007 /retail Trends in Financial Services
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