Financial & Economic Blog

I have used this blog to talk about platforms in recent posts. Last week, Richard Veryard, a UK blogger and "business technology evangelist" picked up on what I wrote in his blog here. Richard asks will financial services firms provide "radical improvements to customer experience and services". He doubts it will happen soon, ends his post by saying "I live in hope"...

I to have hope that financial services companies will innovate in their product offerings and will get away from feeing the customers to death and a focus on their own bottom line to the detriment of their customers.

Examples are starting to trickle in... Here is one from earlier this week from PNC Bank. The PNC Virtual Wallet is a special set of accounts with little to no fees (assuming minimums are met) and provide a set of services around managing cash flow and savings.

Do you know of other examples?