Our biggest stories of the week are … PayPal's ubiquitous vision A couple of interesting posts about PayPal this week. First, they presented their ideas about competing with Visa and MasterCard at physical points-of-sale. This was followed up by a blog post from PayPal President Scott Thompson, PayPal Unveils the Future …
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Our biggest stories of the week are … Who owns Iceland? I'm in Iceland this week, and there's a fascinating split across the country over xenophobia and sovereign rights. This is because, post the financial crisis, the country is selling its prized assets from energy to land, acre by acre, …
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The biggest news stories of the week include … Customer segmentation in retail banking Adkit, an international research firm, just sent me their insights into customer segmentation in retail banking. It’s an interesting report summarised in a 21-slide presentation. The main results show that most banks are narrowing down to …
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Our biggest stories of the week are … Data can be currency, just like salt We are living in times where I often talk about data being our new currency, and that data is more valuable than money or gold in the context of modern life. This may sound …
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Our biggest stories of the week are … Do you know what this number means? So I’m walking around New York and stumble across Broadway and 32nd where this billboard is over Penn Station’s subway entrance: Now I am confused on so many levels. First, who’s that woman covering up …
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Our biggest stories of the week are … Do you know what this number means? So I’m walking around New York and stumble across Broadway and 32nd where this billboard is over Penn Station’s subway entrance: Now I am confused on so many levels. First, who’s that woman covering up …
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Our biggest stories of the week are … Banks need to radically shake up and wake up Frank Partnoy wrote a fascinating opinion piece in yesterday’s FT about the coming world of smaller banks. In the article, he compares HSBC with Google and asks why Google generates as much, if …
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Our biggest stories of the week are … Is this the end of the euro? For the past two years, we have performed a major survey around the euro and European payments. The survey for 2011 is ending on 9th August: click here to take survey and click here to see the last …
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Our biggest stories of the week are … Is this the end of the euro? For the past two years, we have performed a major survey around the euro and European payments. The survey for 2011 is ending on 9th August: click here to take survey and click here to see the last …
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Our biggest stories of the week are … Delivering stellar service in banking I keep thinking about stellar service and what it could mean. Very rarely do you experience stellar service these days. With airlines, it’s a pain to fly. The airport experience is degrading and the flight itself is …
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Our biggest stories of the week are … Is this the end of the euro? For the past two years, we have performed a major survey around the euro and European payments. The survey for 2011 is now live: click here to take survey and click here to see the last two years …
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Our biggest stories of the week are … Is this the end of the euro? For the past two years, we have performed a major survey around the euro and European payments. The survey for 2011 is now live: click here to take survey and click here to see the last two years …
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Our biggest stories of the week are … The Top 20 Banks of the World, 2011: China hits the Big Time I’ve enjoyed the Banker’s Top 1000 listings for a long time now and, when last year’s listings came out, looked back over the last twenty years to see …
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Our biggest stories of the week are … What do you really think about SEPA and the PSD? For the past two years, we have performed a major survey in anticipation of the implementation of the PSD and SEPA to see how the world viewed these areas. The survey …
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Our biggest stories of the week are … What do you really think about SEPA and the PSD? For the past two years, we have performed a major survey in anticipation of the implementation of the PSD and SEPA to see how the world viewed these areas. The survey …
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