BETTER-MOBILE-BANKING

Morgan Stanley has a report on Internet/Technology Trends that proves interesting. Obvious trends include:

“Rest of World” PC Sales increasing faster than the traditional heavyweights.
BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) gain ground in TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications).
Asia/Pacific Internet Users growing faster than other markets

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Rob Findlay over at the Bank channel points to a story on Microsoft’s Zune points which have their own conversion rates to different currencies, effectively making it a currency of its own. So what? I’m very interested in what banking fundamentally is, what currencies are and are not and here is an example of how [...]

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TED
My Entrepreneurship course in my MBA borrowed heavily on videos from TED and Rob Findlay has pointed out the list of the first 150 TED videos
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Hannes (Hannes runs Fundamo which is one of the mobile payments/mobile banking companies that I follow) over at Mobile Banking raises some issues on fraud in mobile payments in his latest post. Of particular interest to me is the case of identity theft in one of his linked stories, which identifies the consequences of lax [...]

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Dave Birch does a great job illustrating how the M-Pesa meme (Person to Person money tranfer via cell phone) is a) growing and b) wide spread. This is an exciting time with the base technology becoming widely available and affordable, and the concepts resonating across cultures and nations. The most interesting part of it all [...]

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Brandon McGee does a great job covering the movements of the big players in the Mobile Payments/Mobile Banking world, covering the Firethorn/Verizon hookup and the BBT, mFoundry & ClearMail threesome, but in his latest post, a comment points to a different example of “mobile banking”.
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Staying with Hannes at Fundamo, he has a post bemoaning the attitudes towards Mobile Banking in the developing world. Obviously Hannes is encountering resistance in the “developed” world to solutions produced from Africa. He does have one point that I find particularly interesting: that without legacy systems getting in the way, products are able to [...]

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Apologies for the delay in posting… James at Banker Vision has a discussion on Innovation vs Optimisation that I think has echoes outside of the banking industry, in particular with the Recorded Music Industry. For a long time, the music industry has operated with a view to “doing what they do better”. So contracts get [...]

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