From the latest New Yorker
Click here for a slide show of the cartoons from this week's issue.
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From the monthly archives:
May 2008
Check out Sramana Mitra's six part interview with Obopay CEO Carol Realini: "Bringing Banking To The Cell Phone Masses"
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If you happen to be in a taxi in Abu Dhabi, that is. Aneace describes the simple, convenient solution here. If only this were possible in San Francisco!
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The final installment of the Wall Street Journal's three part series on the fall of Bear Sterns is on the front page of today's paper. All three parts are online here:
Part One: Missed Opportunities As the firm's fortunes spiraled downward, executives squabbled over raising capital and cutting its inventory of mortgages.
Part Two: Run on the [...]
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[This is just one of my
series of posts from the NACHA Payments 2008 conference in
Las Vegas.]
How To Turn Your Online
Bill Pay Expense into a Revenue Stream [NACHA
Payments]
Peter Gordon
Partner, eCom Advisors
Synopsis from Conference
Program
For a decade, banks' rapidly increasing expenditures on EBP have been
justified on concepts like stickiness, consumer retention, consumer
satisfaction, increased balances and product cross-selling. Although
these [...]
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[This is just one of my
series of posts from the NACHA Payments 2008 conference in
Las Vegas.]
NACHA's
Business-to-Business Payments Strategy [NACHA
Payments]
Alenka Grealish
Manager Director,
Banking Services, Celent, LLC
Julie Hedlund AAP
Senior Director,
Business Payments, NACHA – The Electronic Payments Association
Synopsis
from Conference
Program
While electronic B2B payments through the ACH continue to increase each
year, the majority of B2B payments are still made by check. [...]
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[This is just one of my series of posts from the NACHA Payments 2008 conference in Las Vegas.]
From Check to Electronic Payments: The B2B Outlook [NACHA Payments]
Arlene S. Chapman CTP
Senior Consultant, Technical Services, Association for Financial Professionals
Daniel W. Ellecamp CCM
Financial Consultant, California State Automobile Association
Rue Jenkins
Assistant Treasurer, Costco Wholesale Corporation
Claudia Swendseid
Senior Vice President, Federal Reserve [...]
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[This is just one of my series of posts from the NACHA Payments 2008 conference in Las Vegas.]
Remittance Standards for Wire Payments [NACHA Payments]Hank FarrarSenior Vice President, CHIPSLauren HargravesSenior Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of New YorkJames WillsBusiness Manager, Standards, SWIFT
Synopsis from Conference Program
Three payments industry utilities have teamed up to foster discussion and action [...]
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[This is just one of my series of posts from the NACHA Payments 2008 conference in Las Vegas.]
Corporate Mobile Banking: Separating Hype from Reality [NACHA Payments]
Jacob JegherSenior Analyst, Celent
Amy L. JohnsonVice President, Wells Fargo
Synopsis from Conference Program
Mobile banking is generating a wave of excitement in the North American marketplace. While much of the [...]
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[This is just one of my series of posts from the NACHA Payments 2008 conference in Las Vegas.]
The Return of The XML All-Star Team [NACHA Payments]
Susan Colles CPA, CBASenior Vice President, Bank of AmericaRobert Blair CCMVice President, JPMorgan ChaseSusan BoeriManager, Treasury Services, GE Corporate TreasuryFred Laing, II AAP, CCMPresident, Upper Midwest ACH AssociationLeonard SchwartzDirector, ABN [...]
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I was so preoccupied with NACHA Payments 2008 that I almost missed this special report from The Economist on the future of banking. The emphasis is investment banking and the credit crisis, rather than payments, but it is very interesting nonetheless.
[excerpt from The Economist, emphasis mine:]
Modern finance is under attack. Yet the [...]
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[This is just one of my series of posts from the NACHA Payments 2008 conference in Las Vegas.]
Getting to Know David Peterson of Goldleaf Financial [NACHA Payments] Unlike the rest of my vendor conversations, David Peterson and I didn't talk about his company and its products (Goldleaf bought Alogent earlier this year). I reached out [...]
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[This is just one of my series of posts from the NACHA Payments 2008 conference in Las Vegas.]
NetDeposit and the Future of Remote Deposit Capture [NACHA Payments] After exchanging "small world" stories demonstrating all the ways that Danne Buchanan and I should have crossed paths before this week, we settled into a discussion of the future [...]
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[This is just one of my series of posts from the NACHA Payments 2008 conference in Las Vegas.]
WAUSAU's Evolving Remittance Solutions [NACHA Payments] Kathy Strasser and I discussed the ways that WAUSAU is continuously evolving in order to meet the growing demand for paper to electronic payment solutions via remote capture, remittance, image/item processing and enterprise [...]
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[This is just one of my series of posts from the NACHA Payments 2008 conference in Las Vegas.]
The Global Reach of Remote Deposit Automation [NACHA Payments]
David L. PetersonExecutive Vice President, Goldleaf Financial SolutionsTodd McGuireSenior Expert, Global Concepts/McKinsey
Synopsis from Conference Program
Remote deposit capture has not only eliminated geographic boundaries within the U.S., but has also leaped [...]
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