Tag: Social network

  • Barclaycard Meets Social Networking

    I guess it is an age thing, but I was surprised to see a Barclaycard running on the MasterCard network. In my day Barclaycard seemed to become Visa and Access became MasterCard (I do know that it wasn’t quite like that!). Anyway, park my misconceptions and this is actually an interesting story: Barclaycard US have launched Barclaycard Ring,…

    Barclaycard Ring MasterCard
  • How near is Facebook Bank plc?

    New competitors for established businesses can come from surprising places. If all a bank does is monitor competition from other banks they could be in for a surprise or two. Here are a couple of lines from CNN: “It’s become increasingly clear in recent weeks that Facebook is finally inching toward the launch of a…