Christophe Langlois
On regular basis (ideally weekly), I will post a list of key news on web 2.0 & Banking.
As usual, please do not hesitate to get back to me with you remarks, or with any article I missed!
NEWS – 18 June 2007 to 01 July 2007
BLOGGING
* Comparasites – 28 June 07
* Can banks ever be cool – 27 June 07
* Entertainment Access Spotlight | American Express blog – 25 June 07
* Particpating in online blog conversations is not useful #@ – 25 June 07
* My Fave Five Banking Industry Blogs (B2B) – 25 June 07
* In blogs we trust – 22 June 07
CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
* Lack of a clear customer experience strategy forms largest obstacle! – 25 June 07
* Turning Customer Experience Into A Competitive Weapon – 25 June 07
* “Don’t Let Someone Else Take the Chance to Educate Your Customers” – 22 June 07
EVENTS
* Conference Notebook: SourceMedia’s Mobile Commerce Summit – 20 June 07
FRAUD
* Banks should have their own secure domain – 01 July 07
* Unparalleled onslaught against online banking taking place – 01 July 07
* First National Bank of South Africa goes two-factor with Vanguard – 26 June 07
* China UnionPay and Arcot form Internet fraud prevention partnership – 27 June 07
* First National Bank of South Africa goes two-factor with Vanguard – 26 June 07
* Mobile Identity Theft Protection from Intersections – 21 June 07
* The sign of the Black Horse – 15 June 07
INTERNATIONAL
* Holland | 54 % of the customers do not visit their bank branch – 20 June 07
LAUNCHES
* Northwest Airlines Lets Customers Pay With PayPal – 29 June 07
* New Direct Bank: Element Financial from Irwin Union Bank – 28 June 07
* Top Banks Plan to Introduce Expedited Bill Payments – 21 June 07
MARKETING
* US adult opinions about advertising methods – 28 June 07
* Brand matters |Sapient – 26 June 07
MOBILE BANKING
* CNBC Explores the Growing Mobile Banking Space – 29 June 07
* Wells Fargo, Visa Test Pay-by-Phone – 28 June 07
* Upwardly Mobile in Vietnam – 28 June 07
* Citi Goes Mass Market With Its Mobile Banking Application – 22 June 07
* Verizon Rolls Out Obopay’s Mobile Payment System to 60 Million Subscribers – 20 June 07
* Do You Know the Mobey Forum? – 18 June 07
NEWS
* Financial Web Site Considering $2 Bllion IPO – 29 June 07
PERSONAL FINANCE
* Wesabe closes $4m financing – 20 June 07
* Why Union Square picked Wesabe – 21 June 07
* Venture Funding Flows to Wesabe and Prosper; Wesabe Launches on Facebook – 20 June 07
* Wesabe announces that the company closed a $4 million Series A round– 20 June 07
REPORTS
* Understanding the real impact of online financial services – 26 June 07
* US financial firms failing online customers – study – 26 June 07
* Forrester | ‘Experience Based Differentiation’ – 25 June 07
* Online account opening is difficult to automate – 23 June 07
RESOURCES
* Direct Banks born from retail part 1 – 28 June 07
SECOND LIFE
* BNP Paribas recruit staff in Second Life – 18 June 07
SOCIAL LENDING
* FaceBooks Lendingclub surpasses $100K loans in first two weeks – 20 June 07
* Prosper raises another $20 million – 20 June 07
SOCIAL NETWORKING
* Why Banks are vulnerable in the long run, to social networking – 28 June 07
* Friends Reunited adds Paypal – 27 June 07
* Thoughts on Social Network evolution – 22 june 07
* PayPal Launches on Facebook: Who Wants to be the First Bank? – 22 June 07
SURVEYS
* Benchmark globally, diferentiate locally – 26 June 07
* 71% in the UK saying they do not trust their banks (Unisys) – 21 June 07
VENDORS
* MFoundry adds support for Apple’s iPhone – 28 June 07
* Tyfone Launches Harmony, a Secure Mobile Financial Services Communications Platform – 27 June 07
* A&L looks to Verticalnet for procurement savings – 27 June 07
* TriCipher enhances online protection package – 27 June 07
* ViVOtech and mFoundry team on mobile banking – 25 June 07
* Proformance unveils e-signature technology – 25 June 07
* Tyfone releases mobile financial services communications platform – 26 June 07
* KeyBank to Deploy Web Analytics Software – 20 June 07
* Fifth Third implements Fiserv Imagesoft Nautilus for mortgage processing – 20 June 07
VIDEOS
* ING Direct’s Man on a Mission – 26 June 07
* Technology Credit Union’s YouTube Page – 20 June 07
* Citi Mobile on National Television – 20 June 07
WEB 2.0
* China embracing the web and 2.0 – 19 June 07
