Last year, I was a judge with the Card Awards. This year I couldn't make it, but they have just announced the shortlist. Here it is: Best New Credit Card Product of the Year Barclaycard – Barclaycard Goldfish Low Rate ProductEgg – Egg Money World MasterCardLeeds United and LaSer UK – Leeds United MasterCardNational Australia…
Just received a press release from the UK Payments Council that makes interesting reading. The figures show that spending by card, cheque, cash and automated payments over the last six years has changed little, beyond the usual variance to consumers' payment habits, despite the difficult economic conditions. The latest quarterly figures reveal that: The number…
Just received a press release from the UK Payments Council that makes interesting reading. The figures show that spending by card, cheque, cash and automated payments over the last six years has changed little, beyond the usual variance to consumers' payment habits, despite the difficult economic conditions. The latest quarterly figures reveal that: The number…
Just received a press release from the UK Payments Council that makes interesting reading. The figures show that spending by card, cheque, cash and automated payments over the last six years has changed little, beyond the usual variance to consumers' payment habits, despite the difficult economic conditions. The latest quarterly figures reveal that: The number…
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…
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…
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…
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…
