Visible Banking News #7

On regular basis (ideally weekly), I will post a list of key news on web 2.0 & Banking.
As usual, please do not hesitate to get back to me with you remarks, or with any article I missed!

NEWS - 21 May 2007 to 27 May 2007

BLOGGING
* Wordpress grows beyond 1 million blogs - 24 May 2007
* New CU Blogs: Midwest Financial, Old Hickory, and Secure One Credit Unions - 21 May 2007

CUSTOMER COMMENTS
* Online banks hardly stuff of sword-and-sandals epic - 24 May 2007
* Making the Switch to Unadulterated Online Banking - 24 May 2007

CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
* Wells' Web makeover woos punters and analysts - 25 May 2007
* Abbey in bank holiday meltdown - 25 May 2007

EVENTS
* Next MobileMonday Austin event: Mobile Banking and Payments, June 11 '07 - 26 May 2007

FRAUD
* A decade of online banking - and online fraud - 25 May 2007
* Anti-phishing filters bypassed in IE7? - 25 May 2007
* A first in Quebec's banking industry - Laurentian Bank innovates: 2 additional security barriers for online transactions - 24 May 2007
* Credit cards are still very vulnerable online - 24 May 2007
* Transaction hijacking - cheaper alternatives, at point of purchase - 24 May 2007
* Target 5 Warns Of 'Online Insecurity' - 24 May 2007
* House Passes Anti-Spyware Legislation - 23 May 2007
* Cyber fraudsters target accounts with 'one cent deposit' scam - 21 May 2007

INTERVIEWS
* Wells Fargo & Company at Lehman Brothers 10th Annual Financial Services Conference - Final - 23 May 2007

LAUNCHES
* Singapore's DBS Bank unveils plans for expansion in China - 25 May 2007
* ANZ and ING introduce direct access banking for pension funds - 25 May 2007
* Who launched the UK's first Internet bank? - 23 May 2007
* First National Bank of Omaha Launches Internet Bank - 22 May 2007
* Alliance & Leicester Commercial Bank extends bill payments network - 22 May 2007

MARKETING
* Tenth anniversary of online banking - 27 May 2007
* Apacs marks 10 years of Web banking - 22 May 2007
* One-quarter of 50 Largest Online Advertisers are From Financial Services - 21 May 2007

MOBILE BANKING
* Mobile Phones Revolutionize African Banking - 24 May 2007
* ING Direct Adds Mobile Banking - 24 May 2007
* NY Times Reviews Citi Mobile - 24 May 2007
* Barclays introduces mobile banking services - 23 May 2007
* Bank of America completes m-banking roll out - 22 May 2007

PERSONAL FINANCE
* Mint.com Set to Freshen the Personal Finance Space* - 23 May 2007

REPORTS
* Traditional vs. online banking: Which one is for you? - 27 May 2007
* Case Study: Metrics Drive Wells Fargo's Home Page - 23 May 2007
* Online banking boosts direct debits - 23 May 2007

SOCIAL LENDING
* New Person-to-Person Lender, Lending Club, Hopes Facebook Linkage Allows it to Prosper - 25 May 2007
* Social lending goes red hot, as FaceBook enters the space with “LendingClub” - 25 May 2007
* Now there's big money in P2P - 22 May 2007
* Virgin enters the P2P loan market - 20 May 2007

SOCIAL NETWORKING
* Facebook | will people share their pictures, thoughts and information with commercial interests? - 26 May 2007
* Prosper and Forbes tap Facebook; Co-op Bank joins MySpace - 25 May 2007
* Social Networking to infinity and beyond - 25 May 2007
* Could FaceBook risk becoming another AOL? - 25 May 2007
* Social Network ad spending predicted to grow (eMarketer) - 24 May 2007
* Community ROI - a sensible view - 24 May 2007
* A sense of community - 23 May 2007

VENDORS
* Origo to develop XML standards for full mortgage applications - 24 May 2007
* Financial Objects ships mortgage module - 23 May 2007