Talk of Many Things

US vendor Fiserv is previewing a new person-to-person payments product called ZashPay that lets users send money directly from their bank accounts to anyone they know using only an e-mail address…

Pune in India has become a lot warmer over the years. As recently as seven years ago when I moved in here, it used to be really hot only for 2-3…

Websites of banks, telcos and other service providers make available a lot of generic information (e.g. interest rates) to their customers without asking them to log on. However, when the same…

When a customer recently told me that he'd tried to leave a voicemail message for me but got a message saying my voicemail box was full, I was surprised. Like I've written in…

GTM360 turns one. A year ago, I founded GTM360 Marketing Solutions with the mission to enable high-tech companies derive incremental value from their existing ideas, products and capabilities. In the year that's…

A couple of months ago, I'd written about the controversial subject of overdraft protection in my post called Saviors Or Villains? On the back of the increasing realization that banks…

A recent email campaign we executed to announce the launch of our SAP CUSTOMER & PARTNER MAILING LIST gave us another occasion to be reminded about why we love Out of…

Ever since banks introduced prepaid foreign exchange cards for overseas travelers, there have been several articles extolling their virtue. No doubt some of them have been inspired by banks that…

Thanks to Google, a lot of people believe that they should seek information only when they need it. Given the amount of information overload in today's digital world, this seems…

As most readers would be aware, debt consolidation is big business in a consumerist society like the US. It's also quite common in the UK with tubes in London, Manchester…