Logica has added to its retail banking products with the acquisition of Synectics' Quaestor software for £8m. Quaestor increases our position in the retail banking sector. The NT-based product suite enables counter staff to conduct retail banking...
In online broking, Charles Schwab, Barclays Stockbrokers and esi look set to do well in a market Fletcher Research predicts will be worth £19bn by 2003. He added: "This [online] growth will be further driven by interactive TV, but unless the major...
Smart Media has launched SmartTILL - a touchscreen interactive terminal for
retailers. The free-standing terminals can deal with credit card or cash transactions and can provide receipts, tickets or other hard copy and can even be configured to...
Siemens has confirmed it is negotiating the sale of its Nixdorf retail and banking systems division which supplies ATMs for banks such as Barclays. According to UK paper, the Sunday Telegraph, the asking price is £460m.
Further, other channels such as interactive TV and mobiles have failed to catch on too. Despite predictions that the on internet would spell the end of branch banking, channel integration and branch renewal are set to dominate European retail banks...
Cisco's Sherring says: "It is being installed as an add-on to IP PBX installations, as part of a value-added solution such as unified messaging. It doesn't lack support from the vendor community - Cisco, Avaya and Nortel among others have put their...