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…
Girls, games and gambling
David Birch and I cross paths regularly and he kindly spoke to the Financial Services Club recently about the future of money. For those who don’t know him, David is a Grade-A Geek. Not my description of him, but the description of the Independent newspaper from an article in 2004 and, judging by this photo…

Girls, games and gambling
David Birch and I cross paths regularly and he kindly spoke to the Financial Services Club recently about the future of money. For those who don’t know him, David is a Grade-A Geek. Not my description of him, but the description of the Independent newspaper from an article in 2004 and, judging by this photo…

A Directory of Social Finance
A few people have said to me that they find it hard to navigate around all the ideas on social finance I've written recently, so here's a non-exhaustive compendium: Social Finance Social Finance In Banking View more documents from Chris Skinner Banks ignore social media at their perilSocial networks don't need banks, they need friendsSocial…
A Directory of Social Finance
A few people have said to me that they find it hard to navigate around all the ideas on social finance I've written recently, so here's a non-exhaustive compendium: Social Finance Social Finance In Banking View more documents from Chris Skinner Banks ignore social media at their perilSocial networks don't need banks, they need friendsSocial…
PayPal’s mobile glitch
PayPal, the consummate internet payments goliath, had a little hiccup today. I was logging on as usual when the first screen asked if I would like to sign up for their mobile payment security service. This is where a one-time password (OTP) is generated as a text message each time you make a payment, and…






















