This is a guest post by Mariela Atanassova, and you can save 20% on a Finovate registration (February 11-12) by entering 'FSClub2014' as your promo code when you register, and save 50% on the Bank Innovator's Council meeting (February 13) by entering 'FSC' as a promo code on registration. During the Future of Money session at Sibos we…
I was mulling around the internet this week, and stumbled across this video of Susan Bennett talking about how she provides voice services for technology companies as a voice actor. What she didn’t realise, until a friend told her, is that one her recent acting jobs had landed her the job of Siri on the…
I was mulling around the internet this week, and stumbled across this video of Susan Bennett talking about how she provides voice services for technology companies as a voice actor. What she didn’t realise, until a friend told her, is that one her recent acting jobs had landed her the job of Siri on the…
Hello everyone and welcome to 2014. The teenies, as this decade is known, is becoming a fascinating decade of change. From fundamental change in the economic and political world, thanks to the financial crisis of 2008, to fundamental change of society thanks to the technology movements of mobile and tablet computing, this decade is a…
Santa’s workshop boasts a highly-systematic, technologically-advanced, and expensive operation worth over $227-Billion, or so we would imagine in this infographic: The infographic gathers ten already existing, super advanced technologies, that FinancesOnline.com believe Santa would need to use to make the seemingly impossible logistics of Christmas gift-giving a success. It covers all aspects of Santa’s operations:…
I was struck yesterday, as I presented my themes around Digital Bank at a conference, that there’s one area I’ve discussed for a long time, but not blogged about much in-depth. That is the collision of community with commerce via the sharing economy. The theme starts with the fact that capitalism is not what it…
I blogged a bit already about account switching, and how customer lethargy meant that it wasn’t really happening. Account switching rules came into force on 16th September, and the new rules mean that it takes just seven days to move accounts and all incoming and outgoing payments have to switch with the account automatically. If there…
