You said something intriguing earlier on, about established financial institutions not innovating enough with new banking technology.
The branches are stuffed with the latest banking technology designed to aid customers.
The global company specialises in supplying cash machines and banking technology.
Banking Technology magazine of London produces the Daily News at Sibos which has a tradition of running candid pictures of conference participants with amusing, usually, captions.
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More critically, the telecom carriers are getting mobile phones into the hands of just about everyone in just about every country, but established financial institutions are not current with new banking technology and are therefore, unable to capitalize on this dynamic new business channel.
Increasingly these places boast the amenities to compete with the bastions of hipness in everything from medicine and banking to technology and movies.
The bulk of its business is in medical devices, biotechnology, pharmacology, banking and informational technology.
Benjamin Ensor, research director at tech specialists Forrester Research, said we were seeing the emergence of "digital-wallet wars" as telecoms, banking services and technology companies all sought to carve out a share of the nascent market.
Ms. Dutra has led talent management engagements across the world in many industries: retail, food and beverage, technology, banking, and manufacturing.
So to get some perspective on things, I talked to Sumeet Jain, who is a venture capitalist at CMEA. Before this, he worked in the Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) technology investment banking group.
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In the banking context, face recognition technology could be just what branches need to raise their level of service.
One of the more intriguing applications of cellular technology is in banking.
Sharp is banking onIGZO, a proprietary technology with an unproven track record to revive its fortunes after it soon reports what is expected to be the largest annual loss in its 100-year history.
Executives in the banking, retail, and technology industries acknowledge that mobile payments must tantalize consumers with targeted coupons and offers to demonstrate they are more valuable than an ordinary plastic card, which has been a fast and reliable payment method for about 50 years.
"They're under huge pressure, " added Peter Falvey, founder of Falvey Partners LLC, a technology investment-banking firm, though he added it might be clever of Facebook to lay out money now on acquisitions, patents and other expenses while it is still a private company, so that after the IPO it can exceed expectations.
During the eighties, I saw this phenomenon in broadcasting, gaming casinos, natural resources, department stores, banking and finance as well as technology and consumer non-durables.
Mobile phones can transform lives with technology such as mobile banking.
This also struck us as a much nobler use of our technology to bring inexpensive banking services to upwards of 3 billion people rather than simply making music easier to share.
In 2005, I went back to technology to build a mobile banking company.
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Each year, SWIFT, the international banking payments organization, holds its operations and technology conference, Sibos.
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Deregulation and new technology are making Britain's banking market more competitive.
Many banks use their own information-technology people to develop their online-banking service, which can be expensive.
But eventually economic development, new technology and the increasing saturation of the banking market in developed parts of Brazil should make this less of a problem.
In fact, Gorbachev is, in all likelihood, literally banking on the infusion of food, capital and technology from the West now in the offing to stave off demands for still greater reform.
Tech is strapped because of sluggish information technology capital spending by corporations, specifically the banking and financial sector.
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"New technology doesn't tend to substitute for branch banking but to complement it, " says Charles Calomiris, a professor at Columbia University's business school.
Brazil, for example, has its own multinational aerospace industry that flies on home grown technology and is renown for its online voting and banking systems.
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" Mayank Tandon, a financial technology analyst at Signal Hill Capital, an investment banking firm in Baltimore, says that "the real growth opportunity in the cards business is truly in emerging markets.
Retail banking whirls struggling to satisfy customer expectations which seemingly flutter as suddenly as technology turns.
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