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Fragmenting the banking structure

Most banks have evolved from days of branches and large offices, to banks with multiple channels of distribution and extensive technology backbones. The issue banks have with this structure is that the technology backbone is broken. This is well illustrated by a comment from one payments manager who said to me that he gets his…

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We don’t need your customer service

For a while now Monitise, the mobile payments processing firm, has been researching views on the future of banking with the Future Foundation, part of Experian. Their objective is to find out how our relationship with money is changing and to understand how the culture of money will develop over the next few years. The…

We don’t need your customer service

For a while now Monitise, the mobile payments processing firm, has been researching views on the future of banking with the Future Foundation, part of Experian. Their objective is to find out how our relationship with money is changing and to understand how the culture of money will develop over the next few years. The…

We don’t need your customer service

For a while now Monitise, the mobile payments processing firm, has been researching views on the future of banking with the Future Foundation, part of Experian. Their objective is to find out how our relationship with money is changing and to understand how the culture of money will develop over the next few years. The…

Zombie money in a chainsaw hell

I recently discovered that friends were killing me. Literally ripping me to shreds with a chainsaw. And it hurt. After all, I am meant to be the Zombie Priest in the Church of Goth, and no-one had beaten me before. And where did that chainsaw come from? I was mad. In fact, I was steaming….

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Zombie money in a chainsaw hell

I recently discovered that friends were killing me. Literally ripping me to shreds with a chainsaw. And it hurt. After all, I am meant to be the Zombie Priest in the Church of Goth, and no-one had beaten me before. And where did that chainsaw come from? I was mad. In fact, I was steaming….

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Zombie money in a chainsaw hell

I recently discovered that friends were killing me. Literally ripping me to shreds with a chainsaw. And it hurt. After all, I am meant to be the Zombie Priest in the Church of Goth, and no-one had beaten me before. And where did that chainsaw come from? I was mad. In fact, I was steaming….

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Zombie money in a chainsaw hell

I recently discovered that friends were killing me. Literally ripping me to shreds with a chainsaw. And it hurt. After all, I am meant to be the Zombie Priest in the Church of Goth, and no-one had beaten me before. And where did that chainsaw come from? I was mad. In fact, I was steaming….

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End of the cheque: open outcry! (UPDATE)

The Daily Wail, Britain’s second largest daily newspaper after the Pun, has finally got wind of the imminent demise of the cheque, as discussed here the other week. This is because the banks vote soon as to whether 2018 is the year of its removal or not. In their article, they have some good bits,…

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End of the cheque: open outcry! (UPDATE)

The Daily Wail, Britain’s second largest daily newspaper after the Pun, has finally got wind of the imminent demise of the cheque, as discussed here the other week. This is because the banks vote soon as to whether 2018 is the year of its removal or not. In their article, they have some good bits,…

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