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The Mobile Financial Future

There are loads of discussions about mobile financial services right now, not least at the Financial Services Club. For example, I recently received this presentation from Len Pienaar, CEO for First National Bank’s (FNB) mobile solutions in South Africa: Add this to the many other mobile financial stories and case studies reported already: ABSA (Mobile…

RBS mobile

The Mobile Financial Future

There are loads of discussions about mobile financial services right now, not least at the Financial Services Club. For example, I recently received this presentation from Len Pienaar, CEO for First National Bank’s (FNB) mobile solutions in South Africa: Add this to the many other mobile financial stories and case studies reported already: ABSA (Mobile…

RBS mobile

Is the social web party over?

I keep reading reports of Second Life being an overhyped piece of dead meat, and now get the same vibes about Twitter and more. In the latest round of discussions, James Gardner and Ron Shevlin both question the worthiness of Twitter for banking, whilst an interesting survey by Purewire found that millions of Twitterati never…

Is the social web party over?

I keep reading reports of Second Life being an overhyped piece of dead meat, and now get the same vibes about Twitter and more. In the latest round of discussions, James Gardner and Ron Shevlin both question the worthiness of Twitter for banking, whilst an interesting survey by Purewire found that millions of Twitterati never…

CEOs don’t like social media … because it’s social!

I heard this quote the other day and loved it, so I’m using it (nothing like plagiarism is there?). Equally, I’m stealing lots of other things these days, such as this animation sent to me courtesy of Simon Deane-Johns: If you are using a system that has a Firewall and can’t work this out, then…

CEOs don’t like social media … because it’s social!

I heard this quote the other day and loved it, so I’m using it (nothing like plagiarism is there?). Equally, I’m stealing lots of other things these days, such as this animation sent to me courtesy of Simon Deane-Johns: If you are using a system that has a Firewall and can’t work this out, then…

iPhone’s BIG NEWS: micro-payments

A nice news report on Pocket Gamer's website, that says iPhone's developers are getting all excited about micro-payments, a new feature in the new iPhone 3.0 software: "Right now, the only way to charge someone for your iPhone game is through a standard App Store purchase. You get your money up front, but you can't…

Using mobiles as a financial channel

On May 28th, the Financial Services Club is holding the second joint meeting with Intellect on Technology Trends – the first was in March and focused upon low latency – sponsored by Speechly Bircham. This meeting will focus upon mobile as a financial channel. The idea of mobile financial services has been a hot topic…

Bank dinosaurs are bank’s worst enemy

I was talking about technology the other day and continue to be amazed by the speed, breadth and depth of how it is changing our world. The amazement is for people of my generation who grew up with technology being expensive and slow to change.  For example, in 1991 I sold a system to one…

Bank dinosaurs are bank’s worst enemy

I was talking about technology the other day and continue to be amazed by the speed, breadth and depth of how it is changing our world. The amazement is for people of my generation who grew up with technology being expensive and slow to change.  For example, in 1991 I sold a system to one…

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