Mobile payments threaten retail banks / credit cards
Patrick Dixon on YouTube - New YouTube Videos
New non banking payment systems using RFID, mobile devices, personal organisers, mobile phones. Remittances, ticketing, retail payments, passports and travel documents. Paying bills, foreign currency transactions, loan agreements. End of back-end processing for banks. End of credit cards and direct debit cards. Pre-approved loans for purchased goods. Loyalty fees and other transaction payments could create consumer revolution. Threat to traditional retail banking. Will use biometrics finger print recognition to validate secure payment transactions. Opportunities for innovation: cross-selling insurance, download mobile applications and other financial services products. O2, Vodafone, AT&T, Sprint, Orange, MTN and other major telecom / technology / media and communication companies have big opportunity to become financial services organisations, giving many handsets, devices and services for free in exchange for financial transactions. Opportunities for marketing, advertising and strengthening customer relationships, brand and corporate image. Lecture by physician and futurist keynote conference speaker Patrick Dixon for 2008 Stein Am Rhein leadership summit - facilitated by Professor Prabhu Guptara.Do social networks kill “real” relationships?
Futurist Topics - Technology
Do social networks damages "normal social relationships"? Impact of virtual communication on social gatherings. FaceBook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Plaxo, Bebo, YouTube are mainly communities of people who know each other. Why many people are physically present but mentally and emotionally absent. Influence of social networks on partner selection and family life.
Virtual relationships, video, videoconferencing, Skype, dating and Second Life. How relationships are changing in the online world.Zopa Loans - Boom in Peer to Peer Lending
Futurist Topics - Banking
How savers are earning up to 12%. Zopa is a peer-to-peer lending company based in London with a radical answer to traditional banks, with over 150,000 members, growing by 2,500 members a month. Zopa matches people with cash to lend with those who want to borrow. So how big could Zopa grow? Could Zopa become a significant threat to traditional banks? Risks to lenders?
Future Banking: Profitable Growth Again
Futurist Topics - Banking
Why banking will make big profits again - and when. What is the future of banking? Will banking be profitable again? Every day I am asked this question. Around 25% of my work over the last decade has been with some of the largest banks in the world, and they, together with global investors, are anxious about the future.
G20 Police and Protests in London - Twitter Revolution in Media Reporting
Twitter Live - Live on Twitter

G20 Summit - Live Twitter Postings - Protests / Police. Many people on our site watched the news unfold second by second through the eyes of people on London streets who were witnessing a small number of violent protestors clash with police. Twitter is being used all over the world for news gathering and live broadcasts of on-the-spot video. An example of the revolution taking place in news reporting, as over 6 million people report on events in their lives from every corner of the globe.
Read more: G20 Police and Protests in London - Twitter Revolution in Media Reporting
Redundancy to New Job – 10 steps to reinvent your career path and change your whole life
Futurist Topics - Management
Looking for a new job: 10 practical steps to a new career path. How to reinvent your future. How to stand out in job applications and stay focussed on what really matters. Losing a job can be really stressful. It could be the start of the most fulfilling chapter of your life. Take hold of your future - or the future will take hold of you.
Read more: Redundancy to New Job – 10 steps to reinvent your career path and change your whole life
More Articles...
- Deflation and Inflation – Winners and Losers
- Biofuels Controversy and Climate Change
- Surviving through global economic crisis
- Marketing in an Economic Crisis
- Cloning of Mouse - Frozen for 16 years
- Turn Green into Gold - Sustainable Business
- How to lose $ millions - video on risk
- Future of Banking - Credit Crunch - Video
- What next in the Sub-Prime Crisis? - Video
- How Green is Your IT? Save cost, better image
- Credit Crunch and Sub-Prime Crisis - Video
- The Future of Motivation at Work: Video
- Future of Space Travel / Tourism - Video
- Surviving the future
- The Future of Outsourcing
- Future Digital Broadcasting, Media and BBC
- The Future of Management - Thinkers 50 Global Ranking - 2005
- FUTUREWISE 4th Edition 2007
- Wake up to stronger tribes and longer life
- Future Management, Marketing, Motivation - Leadership Video
- Working for nothing: corporate lessons for nonprofits
- The Future of the European Union
- Convergence or Divergence - Innovation Video
- RFID - 100 billion wireless tagging devices
- Patrick Dixon to speak at your event
- Keynote Speakers
- The Daily Life of a Futurist - German TV follows Dr Patrick Dixon
- The Truth About Drugs
- Why corporate and social responsibility is now a "success" issue
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