Citi Uses Twitter as Part of Launch of Citi Forward Card

Today, Citi announced a new Visa credit card program called Citi Forward. Interestingly, as part of its launch, Citi is using Twitter as one of its channels. Perhaps the partnership with MySpace for a version of Citi Forward is the reason? Other issuers we’re...

5 Things to Know About Web 2.0

There’s a lot of noise out there about Web 2.0 – the key questions come down to “what does it mean to me?” One place to start is how applying some of the Web 2.0 tools can change your daily life, helping make you more productive. In his post...

Niall Ferguson: There Will Be Blood…!

Today’s Globe and Mail has an interview by its economics reporter, Heather Scoffield, with Harvard Professor Niall Ferguson regarding the current financial crisis. In what is frankly a pretty depressing assessment of the crisis, Ferguson suggests:It is bound to...

What Were They Thinking?

In an article titled Maybe This Is Why People Don’t Like Banks?, Broox Peterson writes on his Payments Industry Regulatory Compliance blog about an AP wire story he read this morning:Apparently 30 states have agreements with the largest banks in this country to...

The New Banks

Earlier this month, Stanford Senior Fellow Paul Romer wrote an op ed for the Wall St. Journal titled “Let’s Start Brand New Banks” – writing that “investing the TARP funds in new banks will do more to help the troubled but potentially...