Innovation

So I cast doubt on a survey published last week that said that PayPal is a bigger challenge to traditional lenders than challenger banks. In the coverage I gave to the survey, I said: “which players are most likely to replace banks, rather than add on to the bank services?  I answered this a while…

There’s a headline in yesterday’s Financial Times: PayPal poses bigger threat to UK lenders than ‘challenger’ banks. The article covers research published by lawfirm Pinsent Masons who used YouGov to survey 2,000 consumers on their views about banking and providers.  Headlines from the survey include: Online payment providers – such as PayPal and WePay – are…

There’s a headline in yesterday’s Financial Times: PayPal poses bigger threat to UK lenders than ‘challenger’ banks. The article covers research published by lawfirm Pinsent Masons who used YouGov to survey 2,000 consumers on their views about banking and providers.  Headlines from the survey include: Online payment providers – such as PayPal and WePay – are…

I often talk about how our work-life balance has disappeared and that we now have just a tech-life balance.  Social and professional have merged.  What was personal is now shared, and things that would usually be private are now public. This is clear from the way we seamlessly move between our social and professional lives…

I often talk about how our work-life balance has disappeared and that we now have just a tech-life balance.  Social and professional have merged.  What was personal is now shared, and things that would usually be private are now public. This is clear from the way we seamlessly move between our social and professional lives…

Everyone’s getting excited about wearable banking.  I’m often asked about it, and also see many examples appearing around such themes. The first was Banco Sabadell offering a Google Glass banking app a year ago.  In response, one of Sabadell’s Spanish bank competitors, Caixa, has gone a step further and launched both Glass and Watch apps . …