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 …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 5th September – 11th September 2011
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, …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 29th August – 4th September 2011
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 …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 22nd August – 28th August 2011
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 …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 15th August – 21st August 2011
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 …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 15th August – 21st August 2011
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 …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 8th August – 14th August 2011
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 …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 1st August – 7th August 2011
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 …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 1st August – 7th August 2011
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 …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 25th July – 31st July 2011
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 …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 18th July – 24th July 2011
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 …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 18th July – 24th July 2011
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 …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 11th July – 17th July 2011
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 …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 4th July – 10th July 2011
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 …
Read More »The Finanser’s Week: 27th June – 3rd July 2011
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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