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Creating loyal customers at no additional cost

Banks can no longer rest on their laurels. Customers are more fickle than ever and are now increasingly expecting à la carte, personalised services which are relevant to their needs. The research supporting this is also stacking up. A recent service survey report from Accenture found that 46 percent of bank customers are more open to sourcing p

/retail

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Managing margin and collateral

While speaking at the OTC Derivatives and Counterparty Risk conference in London last week, I noticed a number of recurring themes which continued to pop up throughout the day. Most of the conference presentations touched upon the topics of margin and collateral management, netting sets and wrong-way risk. As mentioned in my previous blog (Adding...

/regulation /wholesale Financial Risk Management

Robert Siciliano

Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me

Britain Scrapping National Identification Card

The Telegraph reports that UK National Identity Cards containing biometric details, including fingerprints, “were championed by the previous Labour government as a way of preventing terrorism and identity theft.” But the new administration immediately scrapped the initiative, introducing the Identity Documents Bill to Parliament in May, which pr...

/security /regulation

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A prelude to FinovateEurope 2011

Next Tuesday, FinovateEurope will showcase the best new innovations in banking, payments and financial technology in London. The event, like all Finovate conferences, will mix fast-paced demos (no slides allowed) from handpicked financial technology companies with high-quality networking. It's a blend that has won rave reviews from thousands of ba...

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E-invoice and direct debit as online payment

When meeting merchants who offer services online, most of them one day ask is there any other option than card based systems, where fees run up to 2,5 % or even 4 % per transaction. Of course there are other options but card payments are most common and accepted world wide. Sometimes I have wondered for example if Amazon could offer me e-invoice o...

/payments /retail Payments strategies 2015-2020-2030

Gareth Jones

Gareth Jones Field Operations Director at Ubiquiem

Latest News Shock - Internet Banking Usability Sucks!

Forrester says so The studious people at Forrester have just released some research that is astonishing. It’s only available to Forrester subscribers or to purchase – but their teaser says it’s all. Basically, Internet banking offerings do a pretty good job of offering functionality – they just don’t rate well from a usability perspective. H

/retail

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Chickens, eggs and gorillas are red hot

The world of NFC and contactless payments is getting red hot. The first month of 2011 has seen a slew of announcements and rumours relating to this topic. I have written before about what I believe will drive NFC mobile and contactless cards payment forward. Well, many of them now seem to be well under way. Firstly, both contactless cards/phones wi...

/security /payments

Brett King

Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven

Starbucks Mobile App - Payments reinvented

On Wednesday 26th of January 2011, Michael Degnan (of SapientNitro and Engagement Banking fame) and myself headed down to the Starbucks at One Penn Plaza in New York City with the objective of recording our experience of processing a mobile payment using the Starbucks App for the iPhone. The App links your phone to your pre-paid Starbucks card to ...

/payments Innovation in Financial Services

Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

Look at what it adds up to

I had a meeting recently where an analysis was presented that a small enterprise could save 12 working days a year in the area of automating administrative processes (based on migration to e-invoicing). One participant said that this is not of any use as the SME cannot get rid of a part of a person. I protested - rather vehemently for the followin...

/payments Innovation in Financial Services

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Fragmentation Milanese style

I spent the first half of this week in Milan, as the guest of Assonime and Emittenti Titoli, debating trends in the European securities industry. What made the event especially interesting for me was that it brought together participants from both the trading community and those involved in issuing shares on capital markets. For those firms that a...

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