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 Five Things Every Legal...
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...
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 issue...
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 viable existing banks than giving...
Jonathan Jarvis, as part of his thesis work in the Media Design Program at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, has done a masterful video titled "The Crisis of Credit" that explains the interconnections between housing, mortgages, banks and...
For all who are interested, I've posted an article titled "Creating PaymentsViews.com" that walks through the steps I followed to get this new PaymentsViews.com blog "on the air". We're using WordPress, Media Temple (hosting) and the excellent Thesis theme by Chris...
by Scott LoftesnessWe get asked a lot about our views about mobile banking and payments. Mobile payment is a whole separate kettle of fish - and not something I'll address here. But mobile banking is here and now as most major banks are making their decisions about...
by Scott Loftesness Reflections on the PayPal/GE Consumer Finance Alliance On June 8th, 2004, PayPal quietly announced it was partnering with GE Capital Consumer Card Company to begin offering credit lines to customers that want extended payment terms for any PayPal...
By Scott Loftesness Phishing has emerged as the latest threat to the theft of personal information over the Internet. This Glenbrook ActionMap(SM) briefing for financial institutions examines the phishing threat, provides brief technology background on how fraudsters...
By Scott Loftesness I've been playing with the new Apple iTunes Music Store with my Mac OS X iBook—including buying some new (actually, old) music! In addition to rediscovering some favorite songs, I'm also exploring how Apple has tackled the micropayments...
