Features for November 2009

Cover Focus: The PSD: C’est Arrive
The Payment Services Directive, which provides the legal framework for the single euro payments area, comes into effect on 1 November. But delays in transposition in some countries, and a lack of enthusiasm for Sepa expressed in others, makes it likely that there’ll be no ‘big bang’ for the payments [...]

Banking Technology on Twitter

We’re doing some messing about on Twitter - early days yet, but I’m hoping to join up the dots between some of the houskeeping aspects of this site – forward features, Readers’ Choice Awards entries and so on – to automate some of the more mechanical processes … sorry, I mean “to create an interactive dialogue [...]

Contributions and by-lined articles

We welcome contributed comment pieces, with a few provisos:

they should be legal, decent, honest and truthful
they should have an original take on the subject
the subject should be relevant – preferably about banks AND technology – not just generic
product puffery is verboten.
length is anywhere between 500 and 1,000 words. Can’t do diagrams at the moment, but a [...]

Features synopses, and why they are hard to come by …

The single most common request we get at Banking Technology is from PR people looking for synopses based on the Forward Features list.
The single most common answer isn’t really fit even for the web, so I thought it might make some sense to set out some of the reasons that it’s not a good question: for [...]