We just came across a truly excellent roundtable about wearables and the consumer banking industry, featuring some forward-thinking consultants and bankers. Their consensus: we have so many other things to worry about first, maybe we'll get around to this in three years. Or ten. But not this year or next. Unless, of course, Apple does something, in which case we'll have to … [Read more...]
Wearables in Banking
Here's a thoughtful article about wearables by Aman Narain, the global head of digital banking at the big international bank Standard Chartered; he sees the possibilities in 9 billion wearable devices and all the data they throw off, although he's completely correct in being worried about security issues. At Mobile World Congress, we had a particularly interesting … [Read more...]
Bankers Are Eyeing Wearables
We're always interested to see how vertical markets are thinking about wearable technologies, and one of the key industrial adapters may well be the banking industry. Not to fund it; to use it. There's a pretty good article in the ABA Banking Journal about how the banking industry is thinking about wearables -- and they clearly are thinking about it. The piece takes a little … [Read more...]
