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My favourite banking screw up stories

There are so many examples of banks messing up customer accounts around the world that it would be tough to know where to start … except that as I live in Britain, that’s pretty good place to begin. There media here love to regularly report banks messing up, and so here are some of my…

Job titles, acronymns and the corporate boa constrictor

So we’re having a meeting the other day and my friend was a little upset.  He’d just been promoted in the bank to become the Director of Digital Payments, Innovation and Strategy.  We all noted that he was now the lead for DPIS and congratulated him for taking DPIS.  For some reason he took offence. …

Confusion

If banking were a movie, which movie would it be?

So it’s late at night and we reach that point in the evening where it’s almost embarrassing.  I love you man.  You’re my best and only friend in the world, y’know what I mean? Having gone past the point of talking about whether the Pope is really a money launderer and Obama is actually a…

My favourite 419 scam email: Bernie Madoff needs my help

I get a lot of spam and scam email most of which is deleted but, as it's Friday, I thought y'all might appreciate the phish that follows …  —–Original Message—– From: Benard Madoff [mailto:midoffnyc@madoff.com] Sent: 08 April 2015 13:54 To: me Subject: Help me Make a difference   Hello Dear I am Bernard Madoff the…

Do you work for a monkey tree organisation?

I’m often asked about how to implement a digital bank?  What are the top tips? My response is that every company is different, with no two banks the same.  Some are evolutionary and try to tinker with the current company structure; some are revolutionary, like mBank, and radically reorganise the current structure; whilst some are…

Smiling monkey

Ryanair Bank or Private Bank? Your choice!

I’ve talked for some time about component based banking but what about component based pricing? Bank pricing is the most opaque part of the industry, and the part that irritates customers the most.  Customers get charged high fees for unauthorised overdrafts as this funds free bank services for those who don’t go overdrawn.  Banks focus…

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Ryanair Bank or Private Bank? Your choice!

I’ve talked for some time about component based banking but what about component based pricing? Bank pricing is the most opaque part of the industry, and the part that irritates customers the most.  Customers get charged high fees for unauthorised overdrafts as this funds free bank services for those who don’t go overdrawn.  Banks focus…

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I think my Apple is cooked, and worse

Like many of you, I’m an Apple user in some form.  In my case, my telephone as well as a mini iPad. The iPhone5S (must upgrade to 6!) is an essential in my life. “Who’s the actress who starred in that film?”  IMDB app on my iPhone. “How long has Switzerland been called Switzerland, and…

IPhone battery

How bank twitter #fails are killers

I've blogged before about twitter fails, specifically JPMorgan's disaster last November, and it illustrates how companies are finding it challenging to adapt to the new connected world. Another great example of such behaviour was sent to me by a friend this week. A little known chappie with the twitter handle UKDazza (me suspects he's called…

Tweet

Friday funnies: a few financial foibles for your felicitation

Every so often, you get a little frutstrated watching boring bank adverts, so here are a few that will make you smile. First, bearing in mind the time of year and what recently happened, I'm not sure that Abitab (a payments service) will want to air this ad outside Uruguay … … it lacked bite…

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