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• Higher interest rates would tempt me even though TSB has just had an IT disaster

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 15 May 2018

I would be tempted to move to a bank that offered higher interest rates even though it had just had an IT disaster

• Visiting a bank branch made me question my own conceptions

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 14 May 2018

I had to rethink my conceptions about the future of bank branches after I visited one

• Fintech professional’s tech predictions: 7- support for disconnecting from the connected world

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 08 May 2018

Young people will start disconnecting from connected world as risks outweigh benefits

• TSB IT team could get slaughtered in May

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 03 May 2018

TSB's IT project will go under the microscope as the company attempts to get to the bottom of what went wrong after massive problems.

• TSB IT crisis: Is IT governance strong enough in banking should be the question MPs ask

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 02 May 2018

When MPs ask TSB what went wrong when it embarked on a core banking system migration they should look at how IT is managed

• Warning to all banks: TSB needs help from IBM because banking industry has cut thousands of IT jobs

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 01 May 2018

Banks will increasingly rely on suppliers to help them out when IT disasters strike because they simply don't have enough in-house IT experts after years of cuts.

• Could Agile and DevOps be to blame for banking IT failures?

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 01 May 2018

Is the use of Agile and Devops partly to blame fir the increasing number of IT failures at banks on recent years and is there anther way?

• Fintech professional’s tech predictions: 6– Banks to sell more unbranded services to websites

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 30 Apr 2018

Banks are taking their brand names off the high street and might increasingly do so for services they offer to ecommerce companies

• TSB chaos: When choosing bank people should look at core banking platform and not just funky apps

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 26 Apr 2018

If customers don't want to suffer glitches in their banking service they should ask about complexities of a bank's IT systems before selecting where to out their money

• About one million NatWest bank customers to move to RBS digital bank

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 25 Apr 2018

More details of RBS's digital bank revealed

• Human error to blame for Ulster bank glitch, but computer seen fleeing scene of crime.

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 25 Apr 2018

Human error to blame for problems at Ulster bank but a computer was involved

• TSB IT system chaos as bank cuts rope from Lloyds systems

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 23 Apr 2018

TSB customers have experiienced serious proiblems as the bank migrates to its new core banking platform

• Lloyds slashes more jobs and people as fintech is deployed battle of the cost bases

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 18 Apr 2018

Fintech is being deployed by traditional banks as they fight to reduce their cost bases as challengers win customers at a lower cost

• Fintech professional’s tech predictions: 5 – better understanding of privacy settings

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 16 Apr 2018

Consumers are set to become much more aware of the privacy settings on the websites they use

• AI will cut huge chunks out of banking compliance workforce and London high streets might die

  Karl Flinders - Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 10 Apr 2018

What will happen to London's high streets when robots replace the people that buy all the flat whites?