Heidi Miller, CEO JPMorgan Treasury & Securities Services, didn't pull any punches this morning when she addressed the NACHA Payments 2009 conference. The financial crisis - and resulting economic uncertainty - is just one of the real dangers to the ACH network...
In his email to me earlier today telling me about Wells Fargo's new presence on Twitter, Social Media Marketing VP Ed Terpening used a phrase that really caught my eye and captured the essence of what Wells Fargo is doing far beyond simple online banking:It's...
We've tabulated the results of last week's Web 2.0 survey - if you haven't taken it, don't worry you still can; we re-opened the survey and the link is here. (We'll update our results in another week or so, once a sizeable number of new responses are in.) Summary...
Following up on our social media workshop last Thursday, we've just started a new group focusing on Social Media in Financial Services over on LinkedIn. If you're interested in exploring how social media is affecting consumer financial services, you might want to...
Erin McCune and I had a lot of fun today teaching our Workshop on Social Media (aka Web 2.0) and Financial Services. As seems to happen more and more these days, an informed and interested group adds their experiences into the mix and the combined information...
My partner Scott Loftesness and I are teaching a workshop on Web 2.0 and Financial Services this coming Thursday, March 19th. In preparation, we'd like to gauge the level of Web 2.0 participation in the Glenbrook community. There are only two questions and it...
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 aware...
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...
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...
This is a topic Chris has been honing recently and it's all come together in a nice set of slides he presented in Bahrain last week: Banking As A Service View more presentations from Chris Skinner. (tags: 2.0 web) See his post with more elaboration here. Nice job,...
