Blogging about Twitter in January and February identified it as a new, social networking focal point, due to the rapidly growing numbers of fans of their service. Now there are many folks asking questions about Twitter, as it gains momentum. For example, in the last few days, Paul Penrose at Finextra asks: "What’s the point…
Building on yesterday's comments about UK banks missing out on new media, if you want proof you only need to look at Revolution's annual awards for 2009. Revolution Magazine is one of my favourite monthly reads, as it's all about innovation online. Each year their awards ceremony recognises the best of British internet marketing across…
Building on yesterday's comments about UK banks missing out on new media, if you want proof you only need to look at Revolution's annual awards for 2009. Revolution Magazine is one of my favourite monthly reads, as it's all about innovation online. Each year their awards ceremony recognises the best of British internet marketing across…
Zopa announced results this week that showed lending had risen 140 percent year on year. In short, Zopa offers a lean and mean, razor thin margin system for loans. As an lender, I enter Zopa and place an amount – let’s say $10,000 – in the system. Zopa then spreads that loan across a range of borrowers…
This is the sixth post in a series about why banking will be free (you can find Parts One, Two,Three, Four and Five if you want to). In this area let's get into collaborative technologies and, more specifically, collaborative competition. It seems like an oxymoron to talk about collaborative competition and yet for years we…
MasterCard PayPass just issued their 50 millionth contactless chip card at the end of 2008. It's a bit of a milestone as that doubles the number of PayPass contactless cards in circulation in just one year, and supports the recent conclusions of a BAI Study in the USA which finds cash rapidly reducing at Point-of-Sale….
I blogged the other day about knowing where customers are, but knowing who they are is always a challenge. Banks continually talk about fraud and the lack of dependable identification and authentication methods. We talk about things you know (a PIN number), things you have (a card or phone), but things you are (blood, DNA,…
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