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Some stats from performancing.com. Incidentally, I highly recommend performancing to all bloggers. It makes posting a snap, is very powerful, yet simple to use. These stats are for those blogs that include the tag ‘banking’, and I am happy to see your bankwatch comes right in behind Wells Fargo’s ‘guided by history’. Banking – Performancing BlogRank Top Blogs | Performancing.com The Performancing Blog Rank Top 100 has been compiled from blogs using Performancing Metrics. ….The following blogs have been tagged with banking XML feed Blueprint for Financial Prosperity Tags: personal finance banking mortgage money eBanking.ch Tags: online banking e-banking internet … Continue reading performancing.com blog ranking

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After a couple of instances recently I discovered why comments were not making into the site, so I have fixed that. Comments are now open, and welcome. Continue reading Comments are fixed – open now

Update from the Euro regulators on the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA). EUROPA – Rapid – Press Releases Vision The Commission and the ECB see SEPA as an integrated market for payment services which is subject to effective competition and where there is no distinction between cross-border and national payments within the euro area. This calls for the removal of all technical, legal and commercial barriers between the current national payment markets. The update goes on to identify milestones achieved. Milestones Significant progress towards SEPA has already been achieved by the European Payments Council (EPC) towards the establishment of the … Continue reading Single Euro Payments Area – Joint statement from the European Commission and the European Central Bank

I have to apologise for the outages of this blog. I wasn't around for the last couple of days, but I now there were big problems at wordpress. I am hosted at wordpress.com, and I will continue with them. I am so impressed with Matt and the team, and even though there have been downtimes recently I remain satisfied with them and have confidence in them. They are small but significant and growing in the blogging community. As a blogger the system one uses is important, and though I use MovableType on my own ISP for the other blogs, I … Continue reading Blog outages – apologies

As NTT DoCoMo looks to increase its revenue stream having saturated the cell phone market in Japan, they are moving heavily into the next level, that impacts financial services. asahi.com：DoCoMo dreams big with low-rent credit – ENGLISH After revolutionizing Internet use with its i-mode service, NTT DoCoMo Inc. aims to create a new way of shopping.The nation's top cellphone carrier today debuts as a credit company, enabling payment by phone. Its DCMX service allows DoCoMo subscribers to buy on credit simply by waving a handset over a reading device. No signature is required. The implication is that the DoCoMo cell … Continue reading DoCoMo dreams big with “cell phone wallet”

In a move that takes internet closer to being fee based, an amendment that would have barred telcoms from charging extra fees was defeated. One Step Closer to a Fee-Based Internet – – A Republican-controlled House committee yesterday rejected a measure by  U.S. Rep. Edward Markey (D-Malden) that would have barred  telecommunication companies from socking Web sites with extra fees based  on bandwidth usage.Markey's so-called "Internet neutrality" amendment was defeated on a 34-22 vote by members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The rationale from the telcoms: "It's (Internet) a solution in search of a problem," said Brian Dietz, … Continue reading Internet neutrality amendment defeated in US