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Billy Bambrough

Mobile balance check without login comes to the US

The US has a long history of lagging behind Europe when it comes to banking innovation. Bank of the West is out to remedy this by teaming…

Bank Technique paves the virtual way in Azerbaijan

While the west’s continued efforts to get mobile payments off the ground stall, Bank Technique in Azerbaijan has hopes of a cashless economy in just a few years. Billy Bambrough spoke to Bank Technique CEO Ulvi Mansurov about how the bank will respond to the challenge

10th World Retail Banking Report round-up

April 2013 saw the release of the 10th annual World Banking Report from Capgemini and EFMA. World Banking Report aims to provide…

Regulating mass communication

Communisis is helping its UK retail banking clients to better communicate with customers following the January ’13 retail distribution review. Billy Bambrough spoke to Graham Lee of Communisis about the challenges of dealing with customer communications on a grand scale and the importance of getting the right message across

Raiffeisen posts disappointing 2012 results

Raiffeisen has announced a post tax profit of €748m ($976m) for fiscal 2012, down 23% year on year.

KCB post record pre-tax profit

Kenya Commercial Bank Group (KCB) has posted a pre-tax profit of KES17bn ($200m) for fiscal 2012, a rise of 14% year-on-year.

Temenos – Back on track

Temenos has had a tumultuous time of it in 2012. But a management shuffle has put a new CEO firmly in control and Temenos is hoping to re-gain lost ground and drive growth into 2013. Billy Bambrough spoke the CEO of seven months David Arnott.

Bank of China profits continue to rise

Bank of China (BOC) has reported an after tax profit of ?145bn ($23bn), a rise on last year of 11%.

Postbank profits double in 2012

German retail bank Deutsche Postbank AG has reported a net profit of €279m ($358m) for fiscal 2012, up from €111m in 2011.

Co-op Bank reports weak 2012, Verde suffers fresh doubts

The Co-op Bank, part of The Co-operative Group, has reported a net loss of £673.7m ($1.2bn) for fiscal 2012 on the back of corporate impairment charges and further PPI provisions