February 4th, 2015 | 1 Comment »
Huge Infographic: The Mobile Banking Revolution
Mobile agency Somo has put together a huge infographic which looks at the mobile banking revolution.
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January 14th, 2015 | 1 Comment »
goHenry’s New Features Aim To Make Saving A Habit For Young People
goHenry – the family banking tool that empowers young people between the ages of 8 and 18 to save, spend and learn about money – has announced a new feature which aims to help children and teens to easily budget and save.
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December 17th, 2014 | No Comments »
Last Christmas Delivery Dates 2014
Parcel delivery comparison site Parcel2Go.com has put together a handy alphabetical list of last delivery dates.
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November 28th, 2014 | No Comments »
Interactive Tool To Help You Fight Fraud
Natwest have built an online tool to help us understand the tactics that criminals are using, and more importantly, learn how we can protect ourselves.
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November 27th, 2014 | No Comments »
Brits To Spend £1.5billion On “Cyber Monday”
Two thirds of Britons are set to shop online during the discount holiday, ‘Cyber Monday’, with the nation as a whole expected to part with over £1.5billion online on this day alone.
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November 24th, 2014 | No Comments »
Black Friday iTunes Discount
Black Friday shopping has begun to leak over from the US, and this year we’re starting to see a growth in Black Friday discounts here in the UK.
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November 20th, 2014 | No Comments »
iZettle Continues Expansion: Now Available In The Netherlands
iZettle, which claims to be “Europe’s number one mobile payments provider” has extended its European expansion to the Netherlands.
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November 19th, 2014 | No Comments »
Paranoid Spenders: 43% of Britons Check Online Banking Twice a Day
New research by a money saving website has revealed that over two in five Britons check their online banking and banking apps at least twice a day. Almost half of these revealed that they did so to ‘watch out for fraud,’ whilst three quarters (76%) felt they needed to ‘regularly track spending’.
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November 11th, 2014 | No Comments »
Oyster Card Users: Are You A Victim Of “Card Clash”?
Public transport in London has been pretty advanced when it comes to the use of contactless payments, but a problem has been uncovered whereby Oyster Card users could find themselves double charged, all thanks to the simplicity of the payment.
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October 19th, 2014 | No Comments »
Mastercard To Launch Thumbprint-Reading Bank Card
Mastercard has announced that it is bringing a thumbprint-reading card to the UK, which it hopes will improve card security and do away with PINs.
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October 14th, 2014 | No Comments »
Top 10 UK Banks On Social Media
How do UK banks compare when it comes to using social media?
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October 13th, 2014 | No Comments »
8 Things Your Bank Should Never Ask You To Do
The British Banking Association has launched a new campaign which it hopes will help to combat bank account fraud.
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Recent Links
Below are some of our bookmarks to interesting sites and articles that we've seen recently. You can keep track of these links on our Delicious account.
- How Safe Can Apple Pay Really Be? - A look at the security of Apple Pay
- Mobile phone scam hits hundreds of students - Hundreds - possibly thousands - of students across the UK are falling victim to an expensive mobile phone scam.
- Using GRUNT to automate development tasks - Tips for optimizing JS and CSS files from development to production.
- WP Smush.it - Wordpress plugin to send images through Yahoo!'s Smush.it optimization.
- Digital banks support digital business - The digitisation of banking is changing the customer relationship, and this is as true for the corporate customer as the retail consumer.
- Square Now Lets Users Request Money via Email - Mobile payments company Square announced that users of Square Cash, the company's personal payment app, can now use the service to charge individuals or groups through the app or via email.
- Google free to aggregate - The conclusion to the three-year anti-trust investigation by the European Commission will finally see Google able to pursue its aggregator ambitions. But will it?
- Agree It: Facebook app helps you borrow money from your friends - Agree It is a new Facebook app which helps you request loans from family and friends through the social network. But is that actually a good thing?
- Is This What Twitter Commerce Will Look Like? - Twitter is getting serious about commerce on its service. So much so that it looks as though soon you’ll be able to buy goods for sale directly from a tweet.
- Your Web Presence Will Soon Be More Valuable Than Your Credit Rating - A blank social media history is going to be a bad social media history.
- Bitcoin, mobile payments and the future of money - Econsultancy post on new technologies and disruption, with a focus on BitCoin.
- How to Run Multiple Domains from a Single WordPress Install – Kid Volt - Managing 2 sites from a single Wordpress install.
- Project wallet drop: World's least honest cities - Four continents, 16 cities, 192 "lost" wallets. That's the basic formula for a recent sticky fingers experiment by Reader's Digest.
- Mobile wallets face uphill struggle in UK - Less than one in ten UK consumers has used a mobile wallet, despite the widespread availability of the technology, a new study has found.
- Finextra: PayPal shines a Beacon on the future of hands-free payments - PayPal has unveiled Beacon, a Bluetooth plug-in for merchants that automatically checks in consumers for hands-free cashless payments at the point-of-sale.
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