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Mobile share trading unviable:Gartner

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

While mobile banking is buzzing, stock trading via the mobile seems to be a non-starter. According to Gatner's new research, only 5% of the US customers offered stock trading have adapted to it. Even there without volumes to support it, trading firms may not be able to justify the investment in creating ...

Moneycontrol Launches Investor Mail Service

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Moneycontrol, the leading financial portal has launched an email service within the new portal - in.com You ask what they are doing in this space which is already swarming with numerous providers. They have tried to position it differently. It is positioned to be a unique email service which is an ...

Reliance Money to launch faith-based PMS

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Reliance Money, the retail broking arm of Reliance Capital Ltd, is going to launch India’s first portfolio management service where managers will create a portfolio of stocks compliant with Shariah investment regulations for each client. The service will be marketed by Reliance Money and Parsoli Corp. Ltd., an Islamic brokerage ...

ICICI Bank Awarded Most Customer Responsive Company

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

ICICI Bank was awarded the Most Customer Responsive Company at 'The Economic Times - Avaya Global Connect Customer Responsiveness Awards 2007'. According to an email received by customers from the Bank, "The nomination and short-listing process of the awards was rigorous. The exercise encompassed a multi-stage process involving customers as ...

E-Trading a strategic imperative for Banks

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

The Hindu Business Line, on the back of SBICAP Securities' announcement of offer online broking, carried an insightful article highlighting just how important such diversifications are to a bank's business strategy. "The concept of a bank cross-selling its third-party financial products to supplement its core business of accepting deposits and on-lending ...

Most Visited Financial Websites

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

Alexa.com can throw up some interesting stats. We did a look up to see which were the most visited financial websites in India. Here is a summary:At 15 is Moneycontrol – everyone is interested in the stock markets.At 25 is ICICI Bank – ICICI bank has a strong Internet presence ...

ICICI Direct opens the world to investors

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

Want a piece of the action on Nasdaq? ICICI Direct now gives it to you.ICICIdirect.com has tied up with Penson Financial Services Inc, a US-based securities services firm, to launch its overseas trading service that will allow individual resident customers (the service is not available for corporates, partnership firms, HUFs, ...

Reliance Money partners with Money Control

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

Money Control and Reliance Money have partnered to provide all users who maintain a portfolio on moneycontrol.com with free, customised analysis and expert advise on the portfolio.While the service has not been launched yet, it is interesting to see how this pans out and whether it results in increased registrations ...

Reliance Money Unveils Mobile Financial Portal

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

Reliance Money, along with Webaroo has unveiled its “Mobile Financial Portal”, the first-of-its-kind portal offering a range of financial services and information to its investors, across all telecom operators. With this initiative, the company will now be tapping around 200 million telecom user base in India, that adds over five ...

Exploring New Territories in Financial Services Marketing

Monday, August 6th, 2007

Financial Services marketers are leaving no stone unturned in their attempt to tap the highly under-served Indian customer. Powered by technology and driven by the increasing FMCG-isation (sorry :-) ) of financial services, companies are now bringing their products closer and in places you least expected.Recently Reliance Money has collaborated ...