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Updated: 2013-01-31 09:20:00
Things worth reading: 31st January 2013
Updated: 2013-01-31 04:36:18Things worth reading: 30th January 2013
Updated: 2013-01-30 08:23:383.12.13: Celent Asia Webinar: Mobile Payments in South Korea
Updated: 2013-01-30 06:55:37Celent analyst KyongSun Kong This event is free to attend. Celent clients and the media will have access to the webinar’s PowerPoint presentation after the event. Please click here for more information.3.7.13: Celent Banking Webinar: Debunking Mobile Payments Myths
Updated: 2013-01-30 05:49:33Zilvinas Bareisis, Senior Analyst, Celent’s Banking Group This event is free to attend for Celent clients, flex-plan clients, and the media. Non-clients can attend for a fee of US$250. If you are unsure of your client status, please contact Steve Nawrocki at +1.617.262.3128 or snawrocki@celent.com. Please click here for more information.Real-time means now, and don't you forget it
Updated: 2013-01-29 09:42:00Things worth reading: 29th January 2013
Updated: 2013-01-29 05:56:22Bank trust is at an all time low
Updated: 2013-01-28 09:26:00Things worth reading: 28th January 2013
Updated: 2013-01-28 07:20:003.13.13: Celent Banking Webinar: Top Trends in Corporate Banking 2013
Updated: 2013-01-28 06:37:53Robert Mancini, Senior Analyst, Celent’s Banking Group This event is free to attend for Celent clients, flex-plan clients, and the media. Non-clients can attend for a fee of US$250. If you are unsure of your client status, please contact Steve Nawrocki at +1.617.262.3128 or snawrocki@celent.com. Please click here for more information.The Finanser's Week: 21st January to 27th January 2013
Updated: 2013-01-27 09:09:00The Bubble According to Todd
Updated: 2013-01-26 02:05:51Todd Zywicki has a long blog post criticizing the CFPB's Qualified Mortgage (QM) rule and using it as a jumping-off point for a call to transform the CFPB's leadership from a single Director to a commission. Zywicki's primary criticism of...Celent Innovation and Insight (I&I) Day Contest – Prizes!!!
Updated: 2013-01-25 15:32:48Celent is challenging all to come up with the best definition of innovation in six words or less. We will be evaluating these stories as definitions and selecting a winner at Celent Innovation and Insight (I&I) Day in Boston on February 27th. There will be prizes! We encourage you to come up with your own [...]Change management means change management
Updated: 2013-01-25 08:09:09Things worth reading: 25th January 2013
Updated: 2013-01-25 05:34:19Bank IT Spending and Trends: What Does 2013 Look Like?
Updated: 2013-01-24 18:00:38The new year brings lots of questions, planning and decision making. IT spending is tied directly to these elements, and as in past years, we have been receiving a truckload of IT spending questions. After a rocky few years folks are curious as to if the figures are on the uptick in 2013. The short [...]Inside the Foreclosure Reviews
Updated: 2013-01-24 13:40:03Yves Smith has a pair of damning posts about the OCC foreclosure reviews (part I and part II). Yves is compiling an extensive documentary record about the way the foreclosure reviews were structured to guarantee a whitewash that would provide...Things worth reading: 24th January 2013
Updated: 2013-01-24 08:08:06Many Young People Will Die in Debt, but Hopefully Not From Debt
Updated: 2013-01-23 16:43:22I had a weird night’s sleep and then openned up my e-mail to find this headline from credit and collection news “Does The Consumer Bureau Harm Those It Claims to Protect? & Study Predicts Millions Will Die In Credit Card...Money is meaningless
Updated: 2013-01-23 08:31:06Things worth reading: 23rd January 2013
Updated: 2013-01-23 08:11:22ING Direct Canada – TV Commercial Ignites Social Outcry
Updated: 2013-01-22 18:01:07
ING Direct Canada recently launched a new marketing campaign in order to promote RSPs (Retirement Savings Plan). The campaign includes a TV commercial that depicts someone suffering from anxiety and depression during RSP season. The commercial has resulted in a rash of negative comments and complaints (see ING’s Facebook page below) alleging that the commercial is [...]Things worth reading: 22nd January 2013
Updated: 2013-01-22 07:44:52From bye-bye banks to buy-buy banks
Updated: 2013-01-21 09:53:38Things worth reading: 21st January 2013
Updated: 2013-01-21 07:10:28The Finanser's Week: 14th January to 20th January 2013
Updated: 2013-01-20 07:59:49Innovation: Hotpants vs. The Knockout Mouse
Updated: 2013-01-18 10:21:38It seems a good time to remind you about our innovation competition, with just over a month to go to our annual Insight & Innovation Day in Boston (more details here). As food for thought, I’d encourage you to listen to this podcast/videocast that I came across this week. Tim Harford describes himself at as [...]Name Your Price for Banking
Updated: 2013-01-17 14:54:04
On January 15th, Green Dot, a US-based company best known for its prepaid cards, announced the launch of GoBank, a full FDIC-insured bank account designed for and available via mobile phone. Promoting itself as “a bank with tomorrow’s technology”, it does indeed come with a host of attractive features, such as a mobile-only account opening, checking the [...]The Power of Headlines
Updated: 2013-01-17 14:01:30We are all familiar with the power of a good headline – it grabs our attention and compels us to read the rest of the story. In the world of printed newspapers, front-page headlines are there to sell papers. And it seems that ability to write a witty headline is a pre-requisite to getting a job at any [...]The gift that doesn’t keep giving
Updated: 2013-01-16 16:19:53Some of you will know the admirable efforts of Zil & I to keep the music industry afloat as we find any excuse to slope off to the nearest record store. The news today that HMV, the UKs best known music store went to administration was particularly distressing to me. We could talk about the [...]Who Owns the MBS Claims? AIG or the Fed?
Updated: 2013-01-15 01:31:07Alison Frankel has a great column today on the fight going on between AIG and the NY Fed about who owns the securities fraud claims associated with the MBS that AIG sold to the NY Fed (or more precisely, its...