article thumbnail

Estonia Shelves Plans For National Cryptocurrency

PYMNTS

Estonia has shelved plans to develop its own national cryptocurrency after the idea prompted criticism by banking authorities and Mario Draghi, the Italian economist and president of the European Central Bank. In 2012, more than €7.3 billion in securities from Russia were processed through the Estonian financial system.

article thumbnail

Bank Super Bowl Ads 2012

Jeff For Banks

If you need to go to the bathroom, feel free to do so: Amarillo National Bank puts their CSRs through a workout. Awesome: Would my marketing readers, being given the keys to the Super Bowl jumbo tron, offer this lack of creativity: Not a 2012 commercial, but this is my favorite Super Bowl bank ad. speed dating.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Guest Post: 2012 Economic Year in Review by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

Looking Back at 2012 Every year, I usually write about the past year with mixed feelings, at times nostalgic for those events and at times, glad that the year is over. 2012 brought us highs, lows, and surprises. Housing markets have begun to improve with the national indices showing year-over-year growth of 3% to 4% recently.

Taxes 74
article thumbnail

Building An eCommerce Presence With Tech, Customer Service

PYMNTS

The company also has a few brick-and-mortar shops across the nation. Data: 2012: The year Adore Me was founded. The company’s inventory and pricing are meant to be inclusive instead of narrowly focused on affordability or plus sizes. All this, Today in Data. 140: The number of employees Adore Me has across the U.S. and Europe.

National 141
article thumbnail

CFPB issues technical reports on National Mortgage Database and National Survey of Mortgage Borrowers

CFPB Monitor

On August 27, 2015, the CFPB issued two Technical Reports: one on the National Mortgage Database (NMDB), and the other on the National Survey of Mortgage Borrowers (NSMB). Technical Report 15-01 National Mortgage Database. Technical Report 15-02 National Survey of Mortgage Borrowers. Sutherland.

article thumbnail

Turkey to be cashless by 2023

Chris Skinner

If nothing else, I love Turkey for their cheesy adverts: In this latest update BKM, the ACH for most of the retail banks, provides the story of Troy, the first and only national payments scheme of Turkey. Turkish banks launched the world’s first national digital wallet, BKM Express, as early as 2012.

National 300
article thumbnail

Upstart CEO Girouard: ‘FICO is extremely limited and backward-looking’

Bank Innovation

In 2012, he founded Upstart, a company […]. Dave Girouard, CEO and founder of Upstart, testified before Congress’ Task Force on Financial Technology for its hearing on the use of alternative data in loan underwriting and credit scoring.

Google 210