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Innovation in Financial Services

A discussion of trends in innovation management within financial institutions, and the key processes, technology and cultural shifts driving innovation.

Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Transmeri, Demos, Real Time Economy Program,MyData

Sweden, Denmark,USA,Finland..

Leaders in the Economist digital economy ranking. The survey appears to be very thorough - but I would put more weight on productivity improving innovations starting from the highest and massive volumes - invoices, payments, card transactions, accounting automation, e-banking etc. Also try to measure public-private partnerships aiming at economy o...

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Brett King

Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven

Branch Networks: Where do we go from here - Part 2

In my recent blog on branches I got some reader feedback that leads me to believe that some have interpreted my positive slant on the effectiveness of direct channels as evidence that I am 'against' branches. This is not the case. However, I do think that branch networks are currently in a precarious situation and bank's might find themselves sadd...

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Retired Member 

Strategy No. 4: Agility for the long running bank.

It’s simple. Winning a race means “getting there first”. The same rule applies to banking, with a small corollary, which is that the most agile (and not necessarily the fastest) usually wins. Is there a difference? You bet! Agility is not pure speed; nimbleness and flexibility play a large part in it. Agility is more “how far” than “how fast”. An ...

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Brett King

Brett King CEO & Founder at Moven

Branch Networks: Where do we go from here?

I’ve spent the better part of the last three months meeting and talking to some of the best and brightest bankers in Australia, Asia, UK and the USA and what I’ve learned is fairly predictable, and just a little disappointing. Direct banking (mostly Internet and Mobile) is going off everywhere I go, but most banks are still saddled with an unhealt...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Transmeri, Demos, Real Time Economy Program,MyData

The future of VAT - automatic and real time

http://boharald.blogspot.com/2010/06/future-of-vat-automatically-real-time.html We all know that today’s VAT reporting and payment process is mildly speaking cumbersome and expensive for 24 million enterprises in EU – eating into their global competitiveness. We also know that it is a very costly operation for the tax authorities (waste of tax pay...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Transmeri, Demos, Real Time Economy Program,MyData

How to fight online card fraud - so obvious

http://boharald.blogspot.com/2010/06/how-to-solve-online-card-fraud.html Excellent YouTube presentation by Douwe Lycklama of Innopay.

John Cant

John Cant Managing Director at MPI Europe Ltd

The Writing is Not on the Wall, digital signage in finance

I have a bit of a soft spot for technology. So I was interested to find out more recently about some of the smart technology that is behind the eye catching video advertising screens that are popping up around train stations and our department stores. Under the catchy umbrella term of digital signage, these screens are becoming increasingly sophi

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Interview of Nick Ogden -Voice Commerce, last part

Here's the last part ! Enjoy ! Bruno Joanides (BJ) : Do you plan to extend your activities to other countries? What is your strategy about this? Nick Ogden (NO) : Yes our network already covers 50 countries and we are already building relationship and partnerships within the EU, but welcome all approaches for collaboration BJ : What is your develo...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Transmeri, Demos, Real Time Economy Program,MyData

Mobile momentum building up

When we established the Mobey Forum 10 years ago (festivites last week) it was with an impressive group of founding members; MERITA BANK PLC, ABN-AMRO BANK,UBS AG, DEUTSCHE BANK AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, BARCLAYS BANK PLC, HSBC HOLDINGS PLC, VISA INTERNATIONAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION, BANCO SANTANDER CENTRAL HISPANO,BNP PARIBAS, SKANDINAVISKA ENSKILDA ...

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Bo Harald

Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Transmeri, Demos, Real Time Economy Program,MyData

95 pct of market left to capture

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