PricewaterhouseCoopers recently surveyed approximately 3000 banking customers in nine different markets to understand customers’ needs, attitudes and behaviours to digital media.
The result is summarized in the The new digital tipping point report which explores the opportunities that exist for banks.
Innovation in banking
Insights on mobile payments trends and technology
Social Media in banking best practices and info.
Interesting videos
Info from planet 2.0
A new video from producer & author of Socialnomics Erik Qualman showcases what technology will replace this digital decade: from checkbooks to car keys. Leaders will also be replaced by new Digital Leaders, which is the focus of Qualman’s new book.
Based on the book Socialnomics by Erik Qualman this is one of the most watched social media video in the world.
This is the long version produced June 2011.
Social Media Revolution 2011: new version of the famous Erik Qualman’s video.
Grand Theft Auto style game educate people about banking.
The game is build around a teenager that comes to the city in search of making it big, along with characters like landlords, fraudsters, old ladies, partners, banks, businesses, etc. To progress in the game, you have to pass challenges (generally financial ones about managing money) and once you get a roll on you’ll start to make more money, to spend on more things, on your way to creating an empire on 56 Sage Street.
The Remote Payments Task Force of the Mobey Forum has recently published a white paper, Mobile Remote Payments
General Guidelines for Ecosystems, for industry guidance and consultation. This paper suggests that the mobile phone number, and not any other specific code or identifier, should be used to identify the payer and payee in a mobile remote payment transaction. The paper identifies guidelines for developing a payment “ecosystem” stressing the need for interoperability across different payment systems and stakeholders across the globe.
Peer-to-peer (P2P) micro-finance is expanding from lending marketplaces like Zopa to peer-to-peer affinity-driven financial support for a wide variety of projects. Several names are used to describe the phenomen is a kind of a crowdsourcing initiative and is usually named as crowdfunding or social finance.
There are a number of websites accomodating crowdsourcing, many of them in creative domains, as described in Ross Dawson’s article How to raise money from the crowds.
Linkedin’s statistics can finally be obtained using Linkedin advertise tools.
As shown on Vincenzo Cosenza blog (Vincos blog), Linkedin has almost 69 million members in over 200 countries and finance (12%) is one of the most represented industries with hi-tech (16%), manufacturing (10%) and engineering (15%).
Technology could potentially bring a lot of innovation in the banking space but how innovation can eventually happen without changing old infrastructures and regulations?
Social Media Revolution 2 is a refresh of the original video with new and updated social media & mobile statistics.