Brett King - bestselling author and the founder of the world’s first direct mobile-only bank Movenbank.
Last year Facebook hit 1 Billion users. It is reported that the average Facebook user spends 75 minutes per day using Facebook. Mobile use has also increased significantly over the last two years. Globally smartphone growth year-on-year was at 42% in 2012, with 17% global penetration, but more significantly with most developed economies expecting 70-80% [...]
Baby Boomers and Gen-X have in common the need to experience life in all it’s glory. Whether that is born out of a sense of adventure, the need for tactile feedback or in the sense of face-to-face social connections, at the core of much of our buying behavior historically has been the need to ‘touch [...]
It was announced yesterday that Facebook is going to start phasing out their Facebook Credits system. If you’ve been watching my commentary over the last few years, I had entertained Facebook becoming a sort of default currency for the web because of the platform’s ubiquity. However, like many things online, users and developers collaborated to [...]
If you think about the way we have digital banking and web presence structured today, it is actually wrong. Most banks today already have a well developed ‘public’ presence in the form of www site, and a separate ‘secure’ portal as a transaction or services platform “behind the login” – normally called “Internet Banking”. The [...]
