Here are my simple notes as background for tomorrows panel at the conference. Slideshare Continue reading Panel notes | Digital Money forum

In a survey that probably understates the matter, Brits are using the same password for multiple cards. Finextra: Brits struggling with PINs – survey Around a quarter of cardholders in the UK are putting their money at risk by using the same PIN number for all their credit and debit cards, according to research commissioned by price comparison Web site Moneysupermarket. This is no surprise, and rather than being seen as a problem, should be seen as an opportunity by the industry to consider additional assistance for people. Biometrics spring to mind, such that cards can only be used by … Continue reading Brits struggling with PINs – survey | finextra

Juniper Research are predicting a 10 fold increase in the numbers using mobile banking, by 2011. Courtesy of finextra. Finextra: Mobile banking numbers to pass 800 million by 2011 – Juniper The number of people accessing banking services via their mobile phones is set to soar to 816 million by 2011 – a ten fold increase on 2007, according to a global study by analyst house Juniper Research In a related point there was a discussion today on twitter about an apparent drop in use of online banking reported by Comscore, and how this could be [speculation] contributed to by … Continue reading Mobile banking numbers to pass 800 million by 2011 – Juniper

A powerful view of the extent of reliance on consumer debt in UK, and the US numbers will be at least as big relative to the economy. Thousands to have usual credit lines cut off – Times Online Almost 600,000 people will be unable to refinance their debts this year after finding their usual lines of credit cut off, forcing them to go bust or sign expensive “bankruptcy-lite” agreements. About one million Britons are struggling with £25 billion of unsecured borrowings that they cannot repay – “problem debt” averaging £25,000 each – according to a report by TDX Group Continue reading Thousands to have usual credit lines cut off

I rarely if ever do this, out of respect for my subscription to FT, however here is one of these occasions, and I hope they don’t mind. I am just a blogger, but I have been blogging consistently since March 07 about how the sub prime crisis will change everything in banking, and in the economy. For the full list see here. Its scary how long this has been a topic on this blog! That leads into …. I have never met Gordon Brown, but there are (at least) three thoughts that leap out at me from this FT piece, … Continue reading Exactly who is running the show?

Interesting shifts in the equity markets characterised by rise of hedge funds and investment alternatives for very wealthy only, and closed to individual investors. Goldman Takes ‘Private’ Equity To a New Level – WSJ.com These markets will generally be closed to individual investors. For instance, Goldman’s market is open only to large institutional investors with assets of more than $100 million. That is because the stocks traded on GS TRuE aren’t registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission and issuers aren’t subject to SEC regulations designed to protect individual investors. It represents the latest step in the creeping exclusion of … Continue reading Goldman Takes
‘Private’ Equity
Goldman Sachs takes ‘Private’ equity to a new level

Courtesy of Finextra, and interesting approach by BofA to assess future innovations in Banking. I am not convinced on the merit of a lab based approach although it might include mathematical ‘what if’ scenarios, which could be valuable. Finextra: Bank of America partners MIT for banking research lab Bank of America says the new centre will serve as an “innovation engine that will seek to transform the ways banking will be conducted in a world of rapidly changing social, economic, and information landscapes”. Staff at the centre will explore ideas in banking by inventing technologies that reveal and use insights … Continue reading Bank of America partners MIT for banking research lab

See Ron’s “shameless plugs” for upcoming Banking 2.0 events, and in particular BarCampBankNE next month. One of these days I will get to a BarCampBank. Places To Go, People To See « Ron Shevlin’s Marketing Whims Shameless plugs for upcoming events you should be at Continue reading Upcoming conferences Banks will never see … but should

Consolidation of Banking was a genuine surprise to me. I expected this to be dry and academic. However the opposite turned out to be the case. The book covers the history and events in North American banking since the ’30’s and here is where the surprise came in. It details the changes and the reasons for the changes. It covers in some depth the impacts of foreign Banks, in the US and globally. The global aspect caught my attention, and this differs from the usual US centric view of the world in the US. The result is a good view … Continue reading Consolidation of Banking: Danielson | Book review

In usual form, Jim cuts right to the chase with some stats that simply prove what I believe to be the case that Facebook is first a foremost a social network, not an advertising network.  That is no comment on Facebooks business model.  I simply question that merely because young people are your target market, that you can stuff traditional interruptive marketing techniques into FB, and they will work.  Jim’s analysis proves that out. NetbankerOverall, the banking and personal finance apps have anemic usage levels totaling just 263 daily users (for apps with more than 1 daily user). That does … Continue reading Bank advertising doesn’t work in Facebook