Well, I see the Facebook/Twitter hysteria is at fever pitch again. There’s the concern around market events like the fake Sina Weibo post stating that Kim Jong Un had been assasinated, apparently corroborated by the evidence of a cavalcade of black limosuines arriving at the North Korean embassy in Beijing around the same time. This started [...]
Tags: citibank, Facebook, Sino Weibo, social media, Twitter, Westpac
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February 15th, 2012
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
Continue Reading | 2 Comments | September 20th, 2011
Transparency challenges new revenue and friction
In September of 2009 Ann Minch, a customer of Bank of America, posted a video on YouTube called the “Debtor’s Revolt”. Ann detailed her case against BofA who had unilaterally increased her credit card APR (Annual Percentage Rate) to 30% from its historical 12.99% – quite a jump. She argued [...]
Tags: Ann Minch, BofA, process, Regulation, social media, stupid rules, Twitter, United Breaks Guitars, you tube
Continue Reading | Add Comment » | August 1st, 2011
Ok, so the feedback from Finextra’s #finxsm event this week is that we’re finally coming to grips with the fact that Social Media isn’t going to disappear into the night like some passing fad. Good news!
It’s interesting though, whenever a major disruptor like social media, the internet, etc has come along, inevitably there are many [...]
Tags: #Winning, Ann Minch, banks, Charlie Sheen, Facebook, social media, Twitter, United Breaks Guitars
Continue Reading | Add Comment » | April 8th, 2011
Since the emergence of online banking there has been a fundamental assertion from high-net-worth bankers that their clients aren’t digitally focused, they don’t use social media or mobile banking, and that they prefer to pick up the phone and engage their banker because the nature of their interactions is defined by [...]
Tags: 2.0, Advisor, bank, F1, internet, Mobile, Private Banking, Social, time poor, Twitter, web
Continue Reading | Add Comment » | April 6th, 2011
