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Can the bank’s leopard really change its spots?

Talking with one of my bank contacts last week was interesting. He was lamenting the days of true customer focus, as a banker would who joined the bank in the 1980s. After three decades, he's seen it all and the mentality of retailing has been the biggest knock-out blow to the industry he's ever seen….

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Innovation Week UK: Finovate and the Innovator’s Council

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…

Innovation Week UK: Finovate and the Innovator’s Council

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…

Siri once worked for a Bank!

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…

Tillie the ATM

Siri once worked for a Bank!

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…

Tillie the ATM

KYC, Laundering and Regulators: a Lose-Lose Situation

I chaired a meeting today about KYC: Know Your Customer. KYC is a wonderful thing that is debated in many financial circles and is an area that I could blog about for two minutes, but I think I need to take a little longer than that.  Therefore, I’m going to write a few blogs about…

Spare a thought for the millionaires [Infographic]

It's tough at the top, with one in ten households in the UK sitting on assets worth over £1 million. You would think they would be happy, but no!  Most millionaires do not consider themselves wealthy until they have at least £3.2 million ($5 million), so here's a nice chart from our friends over at…

Spare-a-Thought

Welcome to 2014 with a few wild predictions …

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…

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Santa spends $227 billion on technology to manage Christmas

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:…

Cyber Santa Claus: Amazon Drones, Supercomputers and Other Cutting-edge Technologies Santa Can Use To Deliver Christmas Gifts

14 predictions for 2013: did they come true?

At the start of the year I made 14 predictions for 2013. Here they are. First, four forecasts for the economic movements of 2013. 1.      The USA is a solid rock  From the Economist I thought the US would be stable this year, but with the stand-off between the Democrats and the Republicans reaching a…

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