Could the difficulties surrounding integration of the front, middle and back offices be political rather than technical? Alan Duerden reports.

Citigroup’s managing director explains the benefits of digitising payments. Joshua Weinberger reports.

Interchange fees are a thorny issue at the best of times, and banks insisting on their necessity if innovation is to happen receive short shrift from consumers. Is there a happy medium? Wendy Atkins reports.

In the second of our regular series looking at banking in the future, The Banker ponders what retail front and back offices will look like in 2015. Stephen Timewell explains the changes.

Projections for a prepaid-card economy see 360 million cards issued in Europe by 2010. But this lucrative business still carries risks.

Nigerian banks know that expanding branch networks and introducing new technology requires a skilled workforce. Nick Kochan reports on staff training efforts.

Banking consolidation has given Nigerian banks the headache of integrating a variety of disparate technological systems onto single platforms. Nick Kochan reports.

Nigerian banks are beginning to realise that they can build their customer bases and raise efficiency by participating in mobile banking, says Wendy Atkins.

The CEO of Sweden’s telecommunications giant Ericsson, Carl-Henric Svanberg, talks to Stephen Timewell and Oscar Wendel about the prospects for mobile banking services.