American Banker, Bank Technology News and IDC Financial Insights released the sixth annual FinTech 100 rankings of the top global technology providers to the financial services industry today. The report only includes firms where more than a THIRD of the company's total revenues is from Financial Institutions. Specific highlights from this year’s report include: Fiserv…
American Banker, Bank Technology News and IDC Financial Insights released the sixth annual FinTech 100 rankings of the top global technology providers to the financial services industry today. The report only includes firms where more than a THIRD of the company's total revenues is from Financial Institutions. Specific highlights from this year’s report include: Fiserv…
My good friend Conny Dorrestijn shared this article she wrote on teenager's views on money and banking. I thought it so good that it's worth sharing here: Sitting in the hotel bar of a conference I recently attended on payments, I pondered with my colleagues “Are we sure we are really building the payments infrastructure…
My good friend Conny Dorrestijn shared this article she wrote on teenager's views on money and banking. I thought it so good that it's worth sharing here: Sitting in the hotel bar of a conference I recently attended on payments, I pondered with my colleagues “Are we sure we are really building the payments infrastructure…
Following on from their campaign using the waterslide to promote their contactless cards, Barclaycard strikes again. This time it was a surprise that popped out as I was looking through the shelves of our local newspaper shop. Eyeing the shelves, this week's Retail Week stood out. It's not a magazine I would normally buy, but there…
Last week's debate at the Financial Services Club's Capital Markets Chamber has just been written up by the A-Team Group. Here's their summary of the evening's proceedings: This week’s FS Club debate on cloud computing suggested that despite all the confusion around the exact definition of a cloud, what it does represent is potential for…
Last week's debate at the Financial Services Club's Capital Markets Chamber has just been written up by the A-Team Group. Here's their summary of the evening's proceedings: This week’s FS Club debate on cloud computing suggested that despite all the confusion around the exact definition of a cloud, what it does represent is potential for…
Just found a few numbers on mobile money users and thought it worth sharing: The market for mobile applications, or apps, will become "as big as the internet", peaking at 10 million apps in 2020 according to Symbian. CGAP produced a recent survey on Financial Access and found that there are 6.2 billion bank accounts…
For over four years, since Facebook first appeared on my radar, I've been waiting for a UK bank to really get into social media. There have been a few attempts but nothing really mainstream. For example, the Co-operative launched a MySpace site for Good with Money and Barclaycard did some good things, but most was…
For over four years, since Facebook first appeared on my radar, I've been waiting for a UK bank to really get into social media. There have been a few attempts but nothing really mainstream. For example, the Co-operative launched a MySpace site for Good with Money and Barclaycard did some good things, but most was…
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