I've been having an interesting dialogue with Jacques Bayens re information usage versus privacy and intrusion after my blog about information as a competitive weapon yesterday. The gist of Jacques point is that there should be limitations on data usage, as a bank pushing loan drugs to thirsty gamblers outside casinos is not a pleasant picture….
A year ago, I was hugely influenced by a 16-page technology supplement in the Economist that talked about information wars. The stand-out quote from that report was from Craig Mundie, Head of Research and Strategy at Microsoft, who stated: “ Data is the greatest raw material of business, on a par with capital and labour….
Looking at technology specifically in financial services, there are many that are being cited as hot for 2011: More social media developments as firms like Foursquare, Groupon and Quora add functionalities not seen before; More bank mobile apps, with clever structures and device-specific security; The creation of new retail payments structures, as Apple and Google…
I was following the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on Visa, MasterCard and PayPal closely during the supporters campaign to target those financial firms who had cut any ties with Wikileaks. The group amalgamated under a twitter hashtag #operationpayback, and posted a variety of notes about who to target when and how, with clear…
So, there are a lot of things we’re juggling around with in the payments arena, from real-time to TARGET2 to SEPA to SWIFT ISO20022 to mobile to contactless to biometrics and more. I guess I can summarise this area best by using the results from this year’s payments survey because the last section of the…
I was quite intrigued to hear a speech by Ben Ramsden, Founder and CEO of Pants to Poverty. Ben's talk was all about social business which, when combined with social finance, creates a completely different and new form of commerce that, if the next generation has any say, will compete with and potentially merge with…
The rumblings of the wikileaks revolution continue, as reports of Visa, MasterCard and PayPal have outages around the world are hitting the wire all day today. Rather than writing long entries here on the blog, I’ll summarise all of this when the events that are transpiring reach a conclusion. For those who haven’t caught the…
Some of us were surprised by the actions of American firms such as MasterCard, Visa, PayPal and Amazon, in trying to close down wikileaks due to their leakage of cables from American embassies. Bearing in mind that over two million American workers have access to the database that held these cables, they weren’t exactly that…
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