Things worth reading: 31st July 2012
Updated: 2012-07-31 06:30:50
Half the world is unbanked, especially women ... it will change
Updated: 2012-07-30 09:40:22Things worth reading: 30th July 2012
Updated: 2012-07-30 05:33:16The Finanser's Week: 23rd July - 29th July 2012
Updated: 2012-07-29 07:48:32Lloyds' Olympian Challenge
Updated: 2012-07-27 09:12:43Things worth reading: 27th July 2012
Updated: 2012-07-27 06:53:38Online Payday Lenders Seek More Respect and Less Oversight: Call Them What You Like, They are Still 1,000% Long-term Loans
Updated: 2012-07-26 21:23:51On-line lenders who are not tribal or offshore claim that they need the same lack of oversight that the tribal and onshore on-line lenders are getting. Otherwise, it isn’t fair to them. Hmmm….. Fairness is as fairness does. Keep in...Latest Visa Fraud
Updated: 2012-07-26 19:37:22A heads up regarding the latest in Visa fraud. Royal Bank received this communication about the newest scam. This is hitting the midwest with a vengance and moving. The trick here is that they provide YOU with all the information,...Team Tim v. Team Neal on the Financial Crisis
Updated: 2012-07-26 18:55:04Matthew Yglesias has a fantastic piece about the Barofsky-Geithner proxy debate on the financial crisis. Read it here. The only thing I would add is to note how this same debate continued through the mortgage servicing scandal and the debate...Transparency is like forcing everyone to fly naked
Updated: 2012-07-26 08:44:36Things worth reading: 26th July 2012
Updated: 2012-07-26 07:04:15Forget about rebuilding trust ... it won't wash
Updated: 2012-07-25 09:35:00Things worth reading: 25th July 2012
Updated: 2012-07-25 06:02:31UK House of Lords to investigate reform of the EU banking sector
Updated: 2012-07-24 08:07:00Things worth reading: 24th July 2012
Updated: 2012-07-24 06:40:08Are Bank Facebook Apps the Future of Digital Banking?
Updated: 2012-07-23 21:26:51
Should banks have a Facebook presence? What should they actually offer to customers via Facebook? Should it be informational or dare I say it, transactional?
A couple of interesting announcements and feelers have surfaced lately:
FNB (South Africa) launches banking via Facebook
Citigroup Asks Facebook Users If They’d Like Social Banking
Commonwealth Bank (Australia) to launch Facebook banking
A handful [...]Things worth reading: 23rd July 2012
Updated: 2012-07-23 06:56:08The Finanser's Week: 16th July - 22nd July 2012
Updated: 2012-07-22 08:06:00Things worth reading: 20th July 2012
Updated: 2012-07-20 05:58:53From Turfing to Crystal Balls
Updated: 2012-07-19 09:19:39Nope, it was a new one on me too. Turfing cropped up in the latest communications survey in the UK, run by Ofcom, the regulator for that sector. Turfing – obviously! – refers to the ability to surf and watch TV simultaneously on the same device. You might think then that report tells a tale [...]Get ready for Facebook banking
Updated: 2012-07-19 07:40:50Pari Passu U on July 23 at 3 (unless they change it again)
Updated: 2012-07-18 02:13:04The NML [Elliott] v. Argentina pari passu argument was rescheduled yet again, to July 23. While we wait, FT Alphaville gets my semi-annual pari passu usage prize for slipping "the boy who cried pari passu" in its nice piece on...Payments and the London Olympics
Updated: 2012-07-16 12:29:49It’s less than two weeks until the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. The Olympic spirit is already in the air in London with all sort of preparations entering their final stages. A section of M4, a major motorway connecting the West of the UK with London was closed for a few days last week [...]Why Small Business RDC Matters
Updated: 2012-07-09 17:21:14
Celent recently completed the analysis of some small business research among a random sampling of 500+ small business owners with annual revenues up to $2.5 million. The universe of U.S. SMBs excluding those making less than $50k/year is roughly 25 million.
The research underscored the centrality of check payments among small businesses – like it or [...]iGoogle is Dead. Are Online and Tablet Banking Dashboards Next?
Updated: 2012-07-05 19:28:06Google has announced that it’s going to deep six iGoogle, its dashboard portal to the web. Google is shutting it down because it claims that iGoogle, “had become less relevant in the age of the mobile Internet.” There are likely numerous reasons for this shutdown - Google’s “spring cleaning effort,” politics, centralization of web apps [...]