Third-Party Versus Bank PFMs
NEWS ITEM Americans prefer to access PFM tools though bank sites - survey Americans prefer to access personal finance management (PFM) tools through banking Web sites, with security concerns trumping…
IT Services Companies Can Achieve Laserlike Focus With Marketable Items
Indian offshore-centric IT services firms have created a multi-billion dollar business from nothing in less than three decades. Companies, large and small, have accomplished this by riding the wave of…
PIPL Digs Deeper And Delivers Richer Contact Information
Business development executives and inside salespersons crave for direct telephone numbers of contacts in potential buyer organizations so that they can reach them directly to pitch their products and services. However,…
New Database Helps You Select The Right Credit Card. Sorta.
Frequent users of credit cards recognize that there's much more than annual fees and APRs to distinguish one card from another. From their years of usage, they might've realized that their overall…
Indian Organized Retail Risks Losing Round 2 If It Ignores Shopping Experience
In a recent "While You Were Out" column in the FORTUNE magazine, Stanley Bing says, "I put up with a lot of things on the job, like working. In return,…
Have Per Second Tariff Plans Started Showing Their True Colors?
At the neighborhood Bharti / Airtel customer center today, I heard a mobile phone customer complaining to the staff that her bills have shot up drastically after she switched to a…
Have Your Overdraft And Eat It Too!
While other banks in America are fiercely resisting any caps being considered by regulators on their overdraft fees, ING Direct USA proclaims that it doesn't charge any overdraft fee on…
Select The Right Contact Provider And Boost Campaign Success
The marketable offerings are created, the email flyers, telescripts and other marketing collateral are ready. It's now time for business development executives to reach out to the target market via…
The New Rupee Symbol & Hammer-and-Sickle
I'm especially happy with the new Rupee symbol because it is designed by an alma mater, D Udaya Kumar, from IIT Bombay. Hearty congratulations to him! By rotating the symbol…
Banks Can’t Look Down On Remitters
Long unable to understand why banks are not anywhere as successful in the remittance business as money transfer operators (MTOs) like Western Union and MoneyGram, I found some clues in…