Our biggest stories of the week are … As my SEPA gently weeps … I hosted a dinner last night with a focus upon developments with SEPA and innovation. What innovations has SEPA introduced? Long silence. To be honest, there are some – the ability to cash concentrate direct debits into the most efficient… Four…
Our biggest stories of the week are … Should a bank be called a bank After Richard Branson's Virgin Money successfully acquired Northern Rock, loads has been written about the takeover. Much has been negative, saying that the Chancellor did a bad deal and ‘gifting’ the bank to Virgin, losing £400 million in the process…….
Our biggest stories of the week are … The Bible says bankers' bonuses are OK … I was listening to a sermon yesterday. The sermon quoted a lengthy section of the Gospel according to Matthew, where three servants are given their master’s wealth to look after whilst he is on travels. Two of the servants…
Our biggest stories of the week are … That European Joke (Part Two) I’ve been loathe to talk too much lately about the Eurozone as it’s just too darned depressing. What with Greece slipping and sliding away, Italy bunga’d out and now France being challenged, it’s just a crazy, crazy moment in history…. A big…
Our biggest stories of the week are … That European Joke (Part Two) I’ve been loathe to talk too much lately about the Eurozone as it’s just too darned depressing. What with Greece slipping and sliding away, Italy bunga’d out and now France being challenged, it’s just a crazy, crazy moment in history…. A big…
Our biggest stories of the week are … PayPal, Forrester, Deloitte & First Data research on mobile payments A summary of research on mobile banking and payments conducted in the USA by Deloitte; the UK by PayPal and Forrester; and globally by First Data. The Pope, EU and USA want a Tobin Tax … surely…
Our biggest stories of the week are … The best mobile financial videos on the Web During the conference yesterday, several presenters used video clips to illustrate the range of mobile payments options there are today. One of the longest and most comprehensive is a reworking of Microsoft’s Retail Banking Vision, which originally focused upon…
Our biggest stories of the week are … Inside the bank's boardroom crisis meeting, October 2011 Welcome to the first of what may be many fly-on-the-wall (FOTW) reports of internal bank management matters. In this first FOTW report, we sent Marty, our Scottish fly, into the monthly management meeting of one of the world’s largest…
Our biggest stories of the week are … Inside the bank's boardroom crisis meeting, October 2011 Welcome to the first of what may be many fly-on-the-wall (FOTW) reports of internal bank management matters. In this first FOTW report, we sent Marty, our Scottish fly, into the monthly management meeting of one of the world’s largest…
Our biggest stories of the week are … Do banks know their customer? So I’ve just finished a mainstream keynote debate at #Eurofinance2011 in Rome about bank to corporate relationships. My role was to moderate a panel of six key industry players, three from corporations: Debbie Millar: Group Executive – Treasury, Funding and… Virtual currencies…
