Sat.Apr 06, 2013 - Fri.Apr 12, 2013

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Banking Billboard Strategies v2: Nordstrom or Wal*Mart?

Jeff For Banks

'Welcome to the second installment of Banking Billboard Strategies. In this episode, we have a bank that can''t decide what it wants to be when it grows up. Does it want to be best price? Or best service? Undecided? No worries. Go for both! There is nothing like draining the treasury by investing in top notch personnel, systems, and processes, and charge little for the effort.

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Faster Pussycat! Why payments need to be faster than a speeding laptop

Javelin Strategy & Research

I bought a new laptop the other day. I won't bore you with the details of its specifications, but suffice to say, as a professional nerd, I get pretty excited about these things. In fact, I got so excited that I actually bought it as an impulse purchase (thanks Amazon for removing the ability for in-store procrastination). The time of this transaction was late the other evening.

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DDoS: The Worst Case Scenario

Javelin Strategy & Research

Over the past several months I have frequently been asked about my thoughts on the slate of DDoS attacks directed against the financial industry, and one question comes up time and time again: “Is the worst yet to come?” To be honest, I don’t know for certain, but it got me thinking about what the “worst” case scenario could be, which inspired the following.