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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 ...

Artha Money – Financial Supermarket

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Artha Money is the latest portal to offer a host of products and services in the personal financial services space. It is positioning itself as a supermarket in this space – signifying that all kinds of products and services will be available. It offers services to compare research and deal in ...

Fidelity launches tools for understanding market volatility

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Fidelity has launched an excellent interactive educative feature on their home page. Very topically, it covers the current financial crisis. This feature does not just explain the effects of market volatility in words but also gives excellent charts which are interactive. These tools are also available on some of thier international ...

More choice in the Personal Finance Space – Zibika.com

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

And continuing on the Personal Finance sites trail, here's another one at www.zibika.com. Zibika has differentiated itself with a social networking stand. Though hardly a new idea internationally India is just about catching up with it. We have blogged earlier about Investment Yogi which has also used social networking as a ...

Two New Personal Finance Sites Launched

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

The Personal Finance space on the Internet continues to generate heat with the launch of 2 new sites recently. Alootechie reports: UK-based Venturian Media has launched a personal finance site Money-India.com , designed to give users access to information on Indian finance products including credit cards, loans, insurance and banking products as well as providing news, ...

Say “Aum” to InvestmentYogi

Monday, August 4th, 2008

InvestmentYogi.com is a brand new personal finance portal to hit the Indian online financial services space. Started by a couple of ex-Travelocity, InvestmentYogi aims to help financial consumers to "learn, share and grow" in their quest for financial nirvana. Relying heavily on social networking features, the site not only provides ...

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, ...