As some of you may have heard, our team formally launched the Movenbank project at SIBOS yesterday. It’s an auspicious start, for a very ambitious project.
The buzz at SIBOS was stellar, with some major support coming from the Twiteratti, from the “InnoTRIBE” and the bloggers in our unique community. Having said that, I’m under no [...]
Tags: banking, BankSimple, CRED, innotribe, Movenbank, Reboot, Twitter
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September 20th, 2011
Massive spend on innovation at the front-end of retail financial services
Putting aside conjecture of whether or not we are in a bubble at the moment around tech, social media, and mobile services (which I believe we very well could be), the reality is we are seeing a flurry of massive investment in new distribution models [...]
Tags: BankSimple, google, Lending, Lending Club, mint, Mobile, NFC, P2P, payments, PayPal, Prepaid Debit Card, start-ups, Zopa
Continue Reading | Add Comment » | July 12th, 2011
My pals at BankSimple soft launched their debit cards internally for their staff this week, which is big news because it signifies the acceleration of the big shift in the BANK 2.0 landscape. Interestingly, though, this launch wasn’t easy, as the team at BankSimple articulated on their blog post of today.
The last many months have [...]
Tags: BankSimple, Blockbuster, Borders, MPAA, RIAA
Continue Reading | 1 Comment | May 20th, 2011
Recently when I posted on reforming customer journeys in the banking space I got some push-back for using Apple as an example of best practice. Surely there are banks I could have used as an example of best practice??? Well… not really. There’s no bank, and believe me I’m looking everyday, that has the whole [...]
Tags: ANZ, App, apple, ATM, BankSimple, BBVA, Best Practice, branch, Che Banca, Commonwealth Bank, Danske, Deutsche, Engagement Banking, Fidor, Geezeo, google, Hana, hsbc, Meniga, metro, mint, Mobile, NCR, OCBC, phone, SapientNitro
Continue Reading | 3 Comments | April 27th, 2011
South-by-Southwest’s Interactive sessions in Austin, TX are a major creative and customer-focused experience. The amount of networking that is taking place, the amount of active innovation and discussion on taking it to the next level is awesome and mind blowing. There’s only one thing…
If there was a game on at SXSW to find 20 bankers [...]
Tags: Bankinnovation, banks, BankSimple, citibank, Engagement Banking, Innovate or Die, LendingClub, Movenbank, Smartypig, start-ups, SXSW
Continue Reading | 5 Comments | March 13th, 2011
